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A new map reveals the extreme depletion of groundwater in Texas and other parts of the southern United States due to drought.
Image created by Chris Poulsen, National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, based on data from Matt Rodell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and the GRACE science team. Caption adapted from work by Kelly Helm Smith, National Drought Mitigation Center, and Adam Voiland, NASA's Earth Science News Team.
Published December 1, 2011 Data acquired November 28, 2011