"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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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.