India is running out of water. Very good article.
“Today, the Punjab, whose name means “land of five rivers,” is running out of water.
The thump of well-boring rigs echoes across the plain. Farmers try to drive wells deeper than their neighbors’. The water table is dropping at a rate of about 3 feet a year.
High-intensity agriculture has exacted other costs: Exhausted or salt-contaminated soil, resistant pests and plumes of fertilizer and pesticides in streams and aquifers.
Similar problems have arisen around the world. Agriculture accounts for more than 90% of all the fresh water used by humans. Demand is so great that many of the world’s mightiest rivers no longer reach the sea year-round. Grain farmers in the top three cereal-producing countries — China, India and the United States — are pumping water from aquifers faster than rainfall can replace it.”
https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/population/la-fg-population-matters-india-water-20120726-m-html,0,7979422.htmlstory#ixzz2zk9ZIABJ
At least it’s not something we need!
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