America's aquifers - An oncoming crisis over misuse of a hidden resource. The illusion, codified in the law not just in Texas but in much of the U.S., is that ground water is somehow boundless.
The Scientific American journal may have taken their report on the subject offline, but there is a lot of discussions about the subject title on the Internet, see (more).
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