“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat (www.propublica.org)
from zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to science@mander.xyz on 26 Jul 15:08
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/49821529

“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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FerretyFever0@fedia.io on 26 Jul 16:38 next collapse

Mexico isn't looking too good, sorry to say.

grue@lemmy.world on 26 Jul 18:20 next collapse

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.

makyo@lemmy.world on 26 Jul 21:08 collapse

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.