Author: Fanack Water Editorial Team
Groundwater is the invisible backbone of water and food security, yet in many regions it is being pumped far faster than it can be renewed. Over‑abstraction persists not because we lack technical solutions, but because powerful interests, distorted subsidies, and weak institutions make over‑pumping politically attractive in the short term and very hard to reverse.
What Groundwater Over‑Abstraction Means
Groundwater now supplies almost half of global domestic water withdrawals and about 43 percent of irrigation water, making it central to both drinking water
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