Global Aquifer Depletion

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John Robb:

'Nature, an environmental journal, released a study reporting that 1.7 billion people live in regions currently under threat of complete groundwater depletion.

Prof. Marc Bierkens, from Urecht University in the Netherlands, has researched groundwater depletion thoroughly. He estimates that the rate at which people are pumping underground reservoirs into extinction has more than doubled between 1960 and 2000.

This alarming trend continues as agricultural demand increases worldwide. Even in the United States, there are some areas that have experienced massive decreases in groundwater levels in recent years." (http://www.resilientcommunities.com/global-aquifer-depletion/)