IN MANY REGIONS, WE ARE “MINING” GROUNDWATER
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FIGURE 6.13 Agricultural production in many arid and semi-arid regions has been dependent on pumping of groundwater faster than it is recharged. This photo shows the circular irrigated fields in one such region in Kansas.
(NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS & U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team) (California Department of Water Resources)