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http://www.hindu.com/2009/08/14/stories/...661100.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Groundwater levels in Punjab, Rajasthan, Haryana and Delhi are falling dramatically — by one foot a year — a trend that could lead to “extensive socio-economic stresses” for the region’s 114 million residents, says a scientific paper based on National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s satellite imagery.

A staggering 109 cubic km of groundwater has been lost in just six years (2002 to 2008) — a figure twice the capacity of India’s largest surface reservoir Upper Wainganga and “much more” than the government’s estimation, says the paper published in the latest issue of the international journal Nature.

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Between August 2002 and October 2008, the region lost 109 cubic km of groundwater, almost triple the capacity of the largest man-made reservoir in the United States, Lake Mead.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->