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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

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Sea-Level Rise Vulnerability (70 m)

Areas of Heavy Groundwater Extraction

Denver Basin

4.50–4.59 pH

4.60–4.69 pH

4.70–4.79 pH

4.80–4.89 pH

4.90–4.99 pH

5.00–5.09 pH

5.10–5.19 pH

5.20–5.29 pH

≥5.30 pH

Sea-Level Rise Vulnerability (70 m)

Utah
1.69%98.3%
Idaho
4.63%95.4%
Washington
23.4%70.9%
Wyoming
100%
Montana
9.26%90.7%
North Dakota
100%
Kentucky
1.72%54.3%1.61%9.53%
West Virginia
7.63%45.0%12.8%8.92%
Nebraska
100%
Missouri
26.1%26.9%12.0%34.2%
Oregon
2.68%97.3%
New Mexico
4.15%91.3%
Kansas
100%
Wisconsin
4.01%46.8%27.3%21.3%
Michigan
24.0%10.0%4.73%13.3%
Colorado
11.85%3.55%88.3%
Nevada
100%
Oklahoma
12.73%5.70%91.6%
Tennessee
5.63%19.5%14.5%3.55%
South Dakota
100%
Ohio
5.07%9.56%59.7%23.0%
Indiana
12.8%4.37%8.75%5.18%
Minnesota
2.86%4.42%92.3%
Iowa
1.50%98.5%
Illinois
139.9%27.0%15.0%3.08%9.73%
Alaska
0.255%
Arizona
11.23%98.8%0.242%
Yukon
0.684%
Northwest Territories
0.108%
District of Columbia
100%77.4%
Florida
1.32%13.8%25.9%98.1%
New Hampshire
72.0%27.9%6.12%
Rhode Island
2.00%3.88%48.0%
Vermont
95.7%4.07%4.19%
Nunavut
0.364%
Maine
17.3%69.8%10.8%14.3%
Nova Scotia
17.9%
Virginia
3.50%1.66%15.4%21.7%
Delaware
17.4%81.8%97.2%
Mississippi
14.3%79.0%5.27%32.2%
Texas
28.53%1.49%4.74%5.19%56.4%11.0%
Louisiana
41.6%42.5%8.80%4.48%2.23%87.7%
North Carolina
11.35%37.2%1.72%9.88%41.0%
New Brunswick
20.2%
Alabama
84.6%13.4%25.8%
New Jersey
5.98%36.6%32.6%23.7%68.4%
South Carolina
133.6%64.2%2.08%49.2%
Connecticut
49.9%50.0%10.5%
Pennsylvania
3.58%34.8%29.1%10.8%0.839%
Massachusetts
98.2%37.7%
Georgia
7.01%3.21%2.51%3.47%30.7%
New York
4.25%52.6%35.3%0.347%
Maryland
12.5%29.8%10.3%53.3%
Québec
1.53%
Manitoba
7.86%
Ontario
8.71%
California
199.7%1.65%
Arkansas
117.5%40.8%7.44%10.2%31.1%
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