Global Groundwater Use Outpaces Supply

This should certainly concern everyone that drinks water...and that's everyone. This article from Science News talks about how a few very thirsty nations are draining major aquifers around the world.

Apparently, "India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Mexico, and the United States lead the global pack of water-thirsty nations" and as indicated in the accompanying illustration, "the groundwater 'footprints' of these aquifers (in gray) represents the theoretical area that would be needed to sustain current demand."

Here's a link to the original abstract published in Nature.

I guess that idea of conserving water is about to take hold, whether we like it or not.