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Massive groundwater depletion in U.S. [1]

Over a 14-year period, the Colorado River basin in the U.S. has lost nearly 65 cubic km of freshwater, almost double the volume of the nation's largest reservoir, Nevada's Lake Mead.

Publication Date: 
07/08/2014
K. S. RAJGOPAL [2]
Hindu (New Delhi) [3]
Tags:
United States Of America (US) [4], Groundwater [5], Reservoirs [6], Lakes [7], NASA [8], Global Warming [9], Water Resources [10]

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