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An arid region grew even drier between 2003 and 2009 due to human consumption of water for drinking and agriculture.


NASA images by Robert Simmon, using Landsat data. Graphs based on data from the UC Center for Hydrologic Modeling. Caption by Mike Carlowicz based on texts from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, American Geophysical Union, and the University of California–Irvine.

Published March 13, 2013
Data acquired September 7, 2006

Sources:
GRACE
Landsat 5 > TM