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NASA: Global Groundwater Crisis; South Africa’s Water Crisis
NASA: Global Groundwater Crisis Threatens Food Supplies & Security. An alarming satellite-based analysis from NASA finds that the world is depleting groundwater — the water stored unground in soil and aquifers — at an unprecedented rate. A new Nature Climate Change piece, “The global groundwater crisis,” by James Famiglietti, a leading hydrologist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, warns that “most of the major aquifers in the world’s arid and semi-arid zones, that is, in the dry parts of the world that rely most heavily on groundwater, are experiencing rapid rates of groundwater depletion.”
South Africa’s looming water disaster. In more than half of the country, South Africans are using more water than what’s available. They are already using 98 percent of their available water supply, and 40 percent of the waste water treatment is in a “critical state”.
