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Northern India Rapidly Depleting its Groundwater Due to Excessive Irrigation; Major Water Crisis Looms If Trend Continues

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Combining gravity observations recorded by the GRACE satellite missions with hydrological models to remove natural variability, the team concluded that the region lost groundwater at a rate of 54 ± 9 km 3 /yr between April, 2002 (the start of the GRACE mission) and June, 2008. Tiwari et al.

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