A historic drought in the country has culminated in a '100 percent drop in precipitation' in the Tehran region.
  • WanderingThoughts@europe.pubEnglish
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    24 hours ago

    With a number of cities, it’s because they pump out the water below the city aquifer. The more they pump out, the lower they sink.

    • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      23 hours ago

      I believe I read about that in Chinese cities as well, maybe Shanghai?

      The water takes up space in the soils and when it’s pumped out, the soil settles and can never be refilled with water again. Sorta feels like another way humans are going to need to engineer out existence in even bigger ways.