India's thirst is making us all wet - environment - 03 October 2009 - New Scientist
ONE nation's thirst for groundwater is having an impact on global sea levels. Satellite measurements show that northern India is sucking some 54 trillion litres of water out of the ground every year. This is threatening a major water crisis and adding to global sea level rise.
According to the research could be pushing up global sea levels by as much as 0.16 millimetres each year. That's 5 per cent of total sea level rise, which may just be enough to change the whole ecology of the sea.
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