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Why This City of 21 Million People Is Sinking 3 Feet Every Year
2016-03-05 17:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Mexico City is sinking. Home to 21 million people, who consume nearly 287 billion gallons of water each year, the city has sunk more than 32 feet in the last 60 years because 70 percent of the water people rely on is extracted from the aquifer below the city. "There`s no fixing it," journalist Andrea Noel told producer Alan Sanchez in the video below from Fusion. "Once land is subsided, it`s subsided." The water table is sinking at a rate of 1 meter (3.2 feet) per year. As the city population...
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