re: Climate crisis: Golf courses on borrowed time as Earth's weather patterns become more wild

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Wait? Is water leaving the planet?

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In some areas of the country, water supplies come from underground acquifers which are being drawn down faster than they are naturally being refilled. That means those water supplies are being depleted. The same is true for the Colorado River system out west which supplies both Las Vegas and a large chunk of agricultural land in Southeast California. So much water is withdrawn that the river literally dries up before reaching the Bay of California.

While some parts of the country have more water than they could ever use, other parts use more water than nature currently supplies.