Groundwater issues

 30% of the worlds available freshwater is groundwater. NASA sent out a recent study that 21 out of 37, of the largest aquifers in the world are being depleted. It is estimated that 20 percent of the worlds crops depend on groundwater. Northern India which is the nations breadbasket for wheat and rice produce, is depleting ground water at a fast rate of 54 billion cubic meters a year. In the United States 50% of people get their drinking water from groundwater and 27 trillion gallons of ground water are brought up and used in the United States per year. Some areas are sinking such as Mexico City as an inch per month because of the ground water depleting underneath the city. 

As the population increases the depletion of the ground water increases as well. Not soon but soon enough there will be little ground water left. Groundwater is a huge source of drinking water so when will there be a solution.

https://www.seametrics.com/blog/groundwater/



Comments

  1. Rasmus SvenssonApril 2, 2021 at 4:02 PM

    I really liked this post, I had no clue that groundwater played such a big role in the entire world. We need to find a solution to these issues that doesn't look to have many solutions. Great post!

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  2. Jessica S.April 2, 2021 at 9:21 PM

    I am on the same page as Rasmus, I did not know that groundwater was a big part of our water source. That is really interesting to me, I thought it was just used primarily in crop production. I am curious to what solutions they will have to save our groundwater source. I also was not aware that Mexico City was sinking due to the groundwater depleting. That is crazy to think about that happening to different places.

    Jessica Seaton

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  3. Jordan McalesterApril 3, 2021 at 2:31 PM

    I kind of knew the impact groundwater but I didn't know it was really that important. I think their should be some type of protective act to solve this problem and save the groundwater. With mexico city sinking due to this , there needs to be a solution found quickly and more people need to be aware of this. Great post !

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  4. Torï OlivarezApril 3, 2021 at 6:43 PM

    I agree with what they say because I did not know if thing about ground water and I certainly did not know that it was important and what you actually say because I never knew or heard anything about this. And I think it’s kind of crazy because there needs to be a solution about this because that is not good. Other than that I like this post a lot.

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