NASA Satellites Track Vanishing Groundwater

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - 10:14 in Earth & Climate

Groundwater--the water stored underground in rocks and soil--accounts for more than 30 percent of Earth's freshwater, but it's hard to measure what you can't see. As groundwater's dwindling supply approaches crisis levels in some regions, scientists are using NASA satellites to track where it's disappearing the fastest.

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