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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		Language Families			Exports			High- and Low-Pressure Zones, January
Areas of Heavy Groundwater Extraction	Denver Basin	Amerindian and Indo-European	Eskimo-Aleut	Indo-European	Class	Rank	Billions of U.S. dollars	High












1.125	1	31.6%	8.03%	36.0%				1

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