Groundwater: 'Go Deep or Go Dry’ is Unsustainable

03/11/2020 28 min Temporada 2 Episodio 5
Groundwater: 'Go Deep or Go Dry’ is Unsustainable

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Debra Perrone, Assistant Professor UC Santa Barbara, discusses the dwindling groundwater supply affecting 12 million US wells caused by global warming and over-consumption. The world relies on groundwater, which is getting harder and harder to find.  With groundwater close to the surface vanishing, well-drillers are forced to turn to deep drilling for corporate, agricultural, and domestic water needs. But going deep this way is far more expensive and increasingly yields contaminated water.