Groundwater Depletion Threatens Future U.S. Food Supplies, Study Says

Yale Environment 360: The rapid depletion of groundwater resources in key U.S. agricultural regions could portend future vulnerabilities in growing the nation's food, according to a new study. In an assessment of water supplies in California's Central Valley and the High Plains of the central U.S. -- which runs from northwest Texas to southern Wyoming and South Dakota -- University of Texas researchers found that in many places water is being used faster than it can be replenished, and that some regions may be unfit for...

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Enclosure: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/05/24/1200311109.abstract?sid=a0454585-baea-48aa-a1fb-96732c979d40