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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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[–] makyo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 8 points 1 week ago

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

[–] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

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.