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about half of the world's population with drinking water and nearly half of all water used to irrigate crops. It sustains rivers, lakes and wetlands during droughts.for some aquifers to recover after they are depleted. Current understanding of this challenge is based mainly on where and how frequently people record measurements of water levels in wells.compiled the first global-scale dataset of these levels.
Some of the 300 million measurements we compiled were recorded by automated measuring devices. Many others were made in the field by people around the globe. And these measurements paint a worrying picture. The town of El Dorado, Arkansas, saw its groundwater levels drop by roughly 200 feet from 1940 through 2000 as local industries pumped water from the aquifer.
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