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Shrinking water supply under threat in U.S. farm breadbasket: report
2013-08-27 18:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A critical water source for U.S. farmers and ranchers is being depleted at a rapid rate and nearly 70 percent of it will disappear within the next 50 years if the current trend does not change, according to a report issued this week. Thirty percent of the groundwater from a critical portion of what is known as the High Plains Aquifer already has been pumped and another 39 percent will be depleted over the next five decades, according to the report by environmental science and engineering experts...
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