Earth's Storage Of Water In Soil, Lakes And Rivers Is Dwindling - And It's Especially Bad For Farming
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https://phys.org/news/2025-03-earth-storage-soil-lakes-rivers.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adq6529 <-- shared paper
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"During [the last] 30 years, #freshwater lakes collectively lost an average of 600 cubic kilometers of #water storage annually – 17 times the volume of Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States.

The cause is a combination of human-caused #overuse and unprecedented shifts in the #climate, the researchers found. "

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/09/how-cities-run-dry/