In a recent post, The Hydraulic Mission Impossible!, Nik Kowsar looks at the damming of Western US rivers, with highly visible impacts, as a hint about what is happening below the surface. But, as he explains, the groundwater is where the biggest crisis lies hidden.
"New research using NASA’s GRACE satellites reveals the Colorado River Basin has lost 28 million acre-feet of groundwater since 2003—twice the volume lost from Lake Mead and Lake Powell combined."
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