Re:Humans Are Draining Even More of Earth's Freshwater Than ...
by DrScump on Monday December 07, 2015 @05:38PM
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"In the mid east, and other arid regions, fossil water is being used up faster than it can replenish itself."
This is happening all over, even in the USA. California's Central Valley's primary aquifer is so depleted that there are severe land subsidence problems even in some suburban areas.
CA politicians treat the aquifer like it's a canteen that can be emptied and refilled at will. Dry aquifers can collapse and never fully refill.
In the mid east, and other arid regions, fossil water is being used up faster than it can replenish itself.
Some places, the water table is falling by several meters per year.
That is not being helped at all by the now unsustainable population density, courtesy of the conjunction of modern pediatric medicine and traditional family planning.