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A Path Out of the Water Crisis (w/ Dr. Peter Gleick)

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Peak Non-Renewable Water Crisis

Is there such thing as peak water well yes I wrote a I wrote an article a peer reviewed science article about peak water that came out a number of years ago. We're overdrafting groundwater worldwide in the Central Valley and the Great Plains of the US and China and India meaning we're taking water out faster than nature recharges it. A very significant amount of food production today worldwide comes from non-renewable groundwater and that's a peak non-ren Renewable water crisisWe write in our weekly column for The Wall Street Journal on all things financial, economic and environmental. Follow us on Twitter @TheWallStreetJournal & @WSJopinion.

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