THE FREAKING MISSISSIPPI RIVER IS DRYING UP.

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76. The big storms and hurricanes/typhoons do not refill our aquifers

Groundwater has been disappearing for over 50 years in large parts of the US - mostly the Midwest and Western states.

I feel very lucky to be living in southwest Pennsylvania, where our seasonal rains are just as plentiful now as what I remember from my childhood (more than 50 years ago.) We have groundwater aquifers as well as aboveground rivers that are plentiful, and most of them feed into the Ohio River or else the Susquehanna/Delaware/Chesapeake basin. We are blessed in Pennsylvania with plentiful water, however the oil industry (namely the fracking extractors) have damaged to our aquifers and private wells. The damage is far worse in Texas and Oklahoma, however I guess that's another subject for another day.

These hurricanes and big storms come in over the eastern states causing floods and damage, however one shouldn't assume it's helping our aquifers. The water runs off quickly rather than absorb into the ground, as it would during a slow-moving rainstorm. It's those regular rains that must come back, and the recent climate changes are preventing those rains, in many cases.