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Aquifer Depletion and Potential Impacts on Long-term Irrigated Agricultural Productivity
Groundwater is the Earth’s most extracted raw material, with almost 1,000 cubic kilometers per year (800 million acre-feet per year) of groundwater pumped from aquifers