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Doesn't that fall back down again as fresh rainwater?
by voidUpdate 1y ago
Doesn't that fall back down again as fresh rainwater?
- eesmith 1y agoSure. While lowering the recharge rate on the aquifer, the river flow, etc. Instead of being re-used downstream, it's re-used downwind. Snow melt original destined for the over-allocated Colorado might instead end up in the Mississippi. All that irrigation water pumped out of the ground in the southwest falls back as rain too. While the land subsides, plants can no longer reach water, and towns have to build deeper wells.