India's use of water is affecting us all

[Are_grits_groceries]

ONE nation's thirst for groundwater is having an impact on global sea levels. Satellite measurements show that northern India is sucking some 54 trillion litres of water out of the ground every year. This is threatening a major water crisis and adding to global sea level rise.

Virendra Tiwari from the National Geophysical Research Institute in Hyderabad, India, and colleagues used gravity data from the GRACE satellite to monitor the loss of continental mass around the world since 2002. Regions where water is being removed from the ground have less mass and therefore exert a smaller gravitational pull on the satellite.
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The "lost" water doesn't just disappear, though. Most of it runs into the oceans. The team calculates that it could be pushing up global sea levels by as much as 0.16 millimetres each year. That's 5 per cent of total sea level rise.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427285.300-indias-thirst-is-making-us-all-wet.html

Good grief! I never thought about this, and they can scientifically measure it. It's not just speculation.

Don't buy any oceanfront property.

[L0oniX]

1. India?? How about Coke and Pepsi and the water companies who are taking their water too.

[Are_grits_groceries]

2. I'm just pointing out one area.

If it's happening in India, it's happening everywhere. Even if the companies are doing it, the scientists have told them there is a problem, and they aren't doing anything. I'm sure that would be a typical response in many places.