Abstract
Groundwater is a life-sustaining resource that supplies water to
billions of people, plays a central part in irrigated agriculture
and influences the health of many ecosystems1,2. Most assessments
of global water resources have focused on surface water3–6, but
unsustainable depletion of groundwater has recently been
documented on both regional7,8 and global scales9–11. It remains
unclear how
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