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Areas of Heavy Groundwater Extraction

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Locations where groundwater systems experience levels of extraction exceeding recharge rates over a limited period of time

Die Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe

A map shows areas of heavy groundwater extraction worldwide, marked with blue shaded dots. Highest extraction areas include the United States, Mexico, China, and India.

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Areas of Heavy Groundwater Extraction

Distribution of Calcium Carbonate in Modern Surface Sediments

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Areas of Heavy Groundwater Extraction

Denver Basin

0 - 20

20 - 40

40 - 60

60 - 80

80 - 100

240–259

220–239

200–219

180–199

160–179

140–159

120–139

100–119

80–99

Less than 80

Uranium

Alaska
0.671%28.4%69.2%2.23%
Yukon
100%
Northwest Territories
2.63%82.4%14.9%
District of Columbia
100%
New Hampshire
100%
Rhode Island
4.44%100%
Vermont
100%
Washington
1.05%1.22%98.8%
Nunavut
1.36%33.1%65.5%
Maine
0.825%99.8%0.153%
North Dakota
100%
Kentucky
46.4%53.6%
Nova Scotia
3.14%52.4%47.6%
Virginia
0.818%2.49%97.5%
Delaware
2.57%100%
Prince Edward Island
19.7%100%
Mississippi
82.1%17.9%
West Virginia
99.2%0.827%
Nebraska
9.53%90.5%
Missouri
66.4%33.6%
Louisiana
26.8%73.2%
Hawaii
2.48%13.2%3.56%1.64%2.67%97.3%
North Carolina
11.08%73.0%27.0%
New Brunswick
0.602%47.2%52.8%
Alabama
66.2%33.8%
Kansas
5.90%91.6%2.46%
Wisconsin
100%
British Columbia
0.699%21.7%31.5%46.8%
Newfoundland and Labrador
1.91%29.5%69.1%1.36%
New Jersey
1.77%51.6%48.4%
South Carolina
1100%
Michigan
100%
Alberta
29.7%53.1%17.2%
Connecticut
100%
Pennsylvania
19.4%80.6%
Massachusetts
5.64%0.220%0.220%99.8%
Georgia
0.250%48.3%51.7%
New York
3.00%100%
Maryland
2.92%100%
Québec
10.4%38.5%41.0%10.1%
Manitoba
26.0%66.7%7.35%
Oklahoma
182.2%17.8%
Tennessee
100%
Arkansas
150.1%49.9%
Ohio
51.6%48.4%
Indiana
0.561%79.2%20.2%
Minnesota
99.9%
Iowa
77.7%22.3%
Illinois
111.8%73.8%14.4%
Arizona
144.2%33.7%22.1%7
Utah
70.0%8.89%2.63%745
Florida
0.637%0.865%32.7%67.3%1
Idaho
78.1%21.9%6
Wyoming
12.4%87.6%102
Montana
14.7%85.3%8
Saskatchewan
42.7%57.2%1
Texas
25.26%58.9%35.9%73
Oregon
0.120%96.3%3.75%1
New Mexico
15.5%33.9%49.1%82
Colorado
148.1%51.6%0.332%279
Nevada
1.58%63.4%31.2%3.86%2
Ontario
30.4%56.0%13.7%7
California
10.408%0.184%2.69%22.7%49.4%19.9%5.25%24
South Dakota
50.1%49.9%15
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