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Solar-Powered Farming Is Quickly Depleting the World's Groundwater Supply

There is a solar-powered revolution going on in the fields of India. By 2026, more than 3 million farmers will be raising irrigation water from beneath their fields using solar-powered pumps. With effectively free water available in almost unlimited quantities to grow their crops, their lives could be transformed. Until the water runs out.

Of course, doing nothing is not a very reliable option either, so we sort of seem to be stuck with it.