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The groundwater that supplies farms, homes, industries and cities is being depleted across the world.

The ground water that supplies farms, homes, industries, and cities is being depleted across the world, and in many places faster than in the past 40 years, according to a new study.

The groundwater that supplies farms, homes, industries and cities is being depleted across the world, and in many places faster than in the past 40 years, according to a new study that calls for urgency in addressing the depletion. The declines were most notable in dry regions with extensive cropland, said researchers whose work was published Wednesday in the journal Nature. On the plus side: they found several examples of aquifers that were helped to recover by changes in policy or water management, they said.

The groundwater that supplies farms, homes, industries and cities is being depleted across the world

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