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It sounds like a climate solution everyone should be able to support: Let's make it easier and cheaper for farmers with dwindling water supplies to convert their lands from crop production to solar energy generation, if that's ...
A conversation with the Times reporter Delger Erdenesanaa, who helped lead an investigation on the poor oversight of our country’s aquifers.
Overpumping and depletion of groundwater is a threat to farmers and is even more important because of climate change.
The Times asked all 50 states how they police the use of valuable groundwater. Their answers reveal why the country is draining and damaging its aquifers so rapidly.
The phenomenon not only has an impact on weather conditions, but studies also show it can cause ripple effects throughout the global economy, impacting everything from food prices to tourism to the number of winter jackets sold in a given year.