NYC doesn't suck water out of the local water table (wherever it does exist). It's all fed from a absurdly massive and deep reservoir and aqueduct system since

NYC doesn't suck water out of the local water table (wherever it does exist). It's all fed from a absurdly massive and deep reservoir and aqueduct system since the later 1800s. https://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/water_pdf/nycsystem.pdf https://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/water_pdf/nycsystem.pdf (Though per the above PDF, there is a small section of Queens that uses groundwater)