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Arizona's Willcox basin is sinking fast due to groundwater extraction

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Arizona's Willcox basin is sinking fast due to groundwater extraction

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In Arizona's Willcox Basin, just over an hour east of Tucson, fissures are tearing through the earth, wells are running dry, and strange areas are flooding when it rains. The cause is clear. As large agricultural producers pump more and more groundwater for irrigation, the water table is falling, and the land surface itself is sinking.

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