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“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat

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    zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    “Groundwater drilled by people, used for agriculture or urban supplies and then discarded into drainages now contributes more water to the oceans than melting from each of the world’s largest ice caps.”

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      “Groundwater drilled by people, used for agriculture or urban supplies and then discarded into drainages now contributes more water to the oceans than melting from each of the world’s largest ice caps.”

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      grue@lemmy.world
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      Wow, I had heard of the issue of aquifers being overdrawn and it characterized as being a problem of users running out of water, but the sea level rise aspect is a new one.

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        “Groundwater drilled by people, used for agriculture or urban supplies and then discarded into drainages now contributes more water to the oceans than melting from each of the world’s largest ice caps.”

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        Kühlschrank
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        This is another level of waste. It’s so depressing that we as a society have no sense of where the things we use go when we’re done with them.

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