Study: Earth's groundwater mapped, quantified
The groundwater map is based on 40,000 groundwater models comprising data from nearly a million watersheds.
Their findings, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, suggest the planet holds 23 million cubic kilometers of total groundwater — roughly 5.5 million cubic miles. Only six percent of that water will be replenished over the next fifty years. In other words, most of Earth's hidden groundwater reserves are nonrenewable.
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