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About one third of Earth’s large groundwater basins are being rapidly depleted by human consumption even though we have little accurate data about how much water remains in them.
NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens using GRACE global groundwater data courtesy of Jay Famiglietti NASA JPL/University of California Irvine and Richey et al. (2015). Caption assembled by Mike Carlowicz, based on stories by Alan Buis (JPL) and Janet Wilson (UCI).
Published July 24, 2015 Data acquired January 2003 - December 2013