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FTA: "Irrigation is responsible for around 70 percent of the global underground water withdrawals, which are estimated at more than 200 cubic miles per year. Th
by WithinReason 3y ago
FTA: "Irrigation is responsible for around 70 percent of the global underground water withdrawals, which are estimated at more than 200 cubic miles per year. This exceeds recharge from rainfall by nearly 70 cubic miles per year."
So 65% makes it back.
- _heimdall 3y agoThese numbers could be wildly innacurate. We have no good way of measuring this at scale and end up using modeling to answer these questions. Models are only as food as the inputs though, and we don't know what we don't know.