Areas of Heavy Groundwater Extraction
WorldPhysical EnvironmentAgricultureLocations where groundwater systems experience levels of extraction exceeding recharge rates over a limited period of time
Die Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und RohstoffeA map shows areas of heavy groundwater extraction worldwide, marked with blue shaded dots. Highest extraction areas include the United States, Mexico, China, and India.
Areas of Heavy Groundwater Extraction | Azraq well field | Denver Basin | Siwaqa-Qatrana-Hasa well field | U.S. Presidential Election: Popular Vote by County, 2016 | Aden | Anglo-Egyptian Sudan | Bahama Islands | Basutoland | Bechuanaland | British Guiana | British Honduras | British North Borneo | Cameroons | Canada | Ceylon | Cyprus | Egypt | Falkland Islands | Fiji | Gambia | Gold Coast | India | Iraq | Irish Free State | Jamaica | Kenya | Kuwait | Malay States | Mauritius | New Hebrides | New Zealand | Newfoundland | Nigeria | North East New Guinea | Northern Rhodesia | Nyasaland | Oman | Palestine | Qatar | Samoa | Sarawak | Sierra Leone | Solomon Islands | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | South West Africa | Southern Rhodesia | Swaziland | Tanganyika | Territory of Papua | Togo | Transjordan | Trinidad and Tobago | Trucial Oman | Uganda | Union of South Africa | United Kingdom | |
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| 87.3% | 96.9% | 45.3% | 46.0% | 64.8% | 75.6% | 51.6% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 40.9% | 94.0% | 84.3% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | 95.6% | 25.7% | 88.8% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 98.8% | 96.9% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 85.3% | 82.8% | 43.0% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | 1 | 95.5% | 3.10% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 98.5% | 97.8% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21.9% | 97.5% | 39.6% | 38.0% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2.3333333333333335 | 1 | 1 | 47.4% | 4.39% | 37.8% | 98.5% | 93.1% | 26.1% | 30.2% | 96.8% | 76.6% | 56.6% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 59.9% | 98.3% | 99.7% | 6.31% | 94.1% | 84.5% | 98.1% | 94.9% | 99.5% | 98.2% | 96.4% | 99.3% | 99.7% | 97.2% | 96.9% | 12.1% | 99.3% | 96.0% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||