Tuesday, August 18, 2009

NASA Satellites Unlock Secret to Northern India's Vanishing Water

Beneath northern India’s irrigated fields of wheat, rice, and barley ... beneath its densely populated cities of Jaiphur and New Delhi, the groundwater has been disappearing. Halfway around the world, hydrologists, including Matt Rodell of NASA, have been hunting for it.Where is northern India’s underground water supply going? According to Rodell and colleagues, it is being pumped and consumed by

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