When humans over-exploit underground water supplies, the ground collapses like a huge empty water bottle. It's called subsidence, and it could affect 1.6 billion people by 2040.
Matt Simon from Wired reported on
January 19, 2021 that the world’s underground fresh water supplies are being deleted, resulting in
collapsed ground and too little well water being available. See https://www.wired.com/story/the-ongoing-collapse-of-the-worlds-aquifers
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