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28 Apr, 6 tweets, 5 min read
A 'hidden crisis': From the US to India, new research shows millions of wells are at risk of running dry

I wrote about a global water study by @sjasechko & Debra Perrone w/ @JayFamiglietti & @geosomething's insights about what these striking findings mean azcentral.com/story/news/loc…
“Up to one in five wells are not much deeper than their local groundwater level,” researcher Debra Perrone says. “That's quite a lot of people that are vulnerable to having a well run dry.” azcentral.com/story/news/loc… @ScienceMagazine @brenucsb
The Southwest really “pops out” in the data. When @sjasechko made a map of well depths in Arizona, wells deeper than 100 meters appeared as thick concentrations of red dots, like chili powder scattered across the map. azcentral.com/story/news/loc…
"As groundwater levels decline around the world, only the relatively wealthy will be able to afford the cost of drilling deeper wells," @JayFamiglietti and @geosomething wrote in their commentary in @ScienceMagazine azcentral.com/story/news/loc…
“Without intervention, the gap between the water ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ will only widen further," @JayFamiglietti and @geosomething write: azcentral.com/story/news/loc…
Here's the new global groundwater study in @ScienceMagazine by @sjasechko & Debra Perrone
science.sciencemag.org/content/372/65…

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