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roundwater loss isn't
just a California problem: According to a recent study by researchers at NASA
and the University of California-Irvine, humans are depleting more than half of
the world's 37 largest aquifers at unsustainable rates, and there is virtually
no accurate data showing how much water is left.
The study, published this week in the journal Water
Resources Research, used 11 years of satellite data to measure water depletion.
Eight aquifers, primarily in Asia and Africa, were qualified
as "overstressed," meaning they had nearly no natural replenishment.
The most stressed basin was the Arabian Aquifer System,
beneath Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Other quickly disappearing aquifers were the
Indus Basin aquifer, between India and Pakistan, and the Murzuk-Djado Basin, in
northern Africa.
Read the Mother Jones
story - “This Map Shows Where the World's Water Is Drying Up”.
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