{"id":23114,"date":"2016-03-04T10:47:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T18:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/the-worlds-biggest-source-of-freshwater-is-beneath-your-feet"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:07:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:07:50","slug":"the-worlds-biggest-source-of-freshwater-is-beneath-your-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/the-worlds-biggest-source-of-freshwater-is-beneath-your-feet","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s biggest source of freshwater is beneath your feet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-biggest-source-of-freshwater-is-beneath-your-feet.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You might not give it more than a passing thought, but groundwater is a vital freshwater resource. In Australia alone, the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.groundwater.com.au\/media\/W1siZiIsIjIwMTMvMTAvMTgvMDBfMjdfMTZfOTIxX0Vjb25vbWljX1ZhbHVlX29mX0dyb3VuZHdhdGVyX0ZJTkFMLnBkZiJdXQ\/Economic%20Value%20of%20Groundwater%20FINAL.pdf\"> reserves of groundwater help to earn the nation a steady A$34 billion a year<\/a> from mining, food production and manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s also a vulnerable resource. Worldwide, about<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v488\/n7410\/full\/nature11295.html\"> 1.7 billion people live in regions where groundwater is under stress<\/a>, 60 percent of them in India and China.<\/p>\n<p>US and Canadian researchers recently calculated<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ngeo\/journal\/v9\/n2\/full\/ngeo2590.html\"> the total amount of the world\u2019s groundwater<\/a> and estimated that it is equivalent to a lake 180 metres deep covering the entire Earth. This makes groundwater the largest active freshwater resource on the planet.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-world-s-biggest-source-of-freshwater-is-beneath-your-feet\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-world-s-biggest-source-of-fr...-your-feet<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might not give it more than a passing thought, but groundwater is a vital freshwater resource. In Australia alone, the reserves of groundwater help to earn the nation a steady A$34 billion a year from mining, food production and manufacturing. But it\u2019s also a vulnerable resource. Worldwide, about 1.7 billion people live in regions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23114"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68145,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23114\/revisions\/68145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}