Funny part is, you could have seen all of this from the old Google Earth Satellite Pics. Their entire water table had been infiltrated by seawater decades ago. They aren't the only one's in trouble though. Even here in the US, the Ogalalla Aquifer that feed most of the Midwest, Texas, and Mexico, has been dropping for more than 40 years, by hundreds of feet at points in Mexico. China's problem is amplified by the Dam saturating the ground, whereas our problem is amplified by pulling the water out. China's water is mixed with seawater, can't use, and ours is simply drying up because we're farming deserts. Our's is fixable. Desalinate, move water to the headwaters, refill, take about 20 years. But what a project that would be.
Funny part is, you could have seen all of this from the old Google Earth Satellite Pics. Their entire water table had been infiltrated by seawater decades ago. They aren't the only one's in trouble though. Even here in the US, the Ogalalla Aquifer that feed most of the Midwest, Texas, and Mexico, has been dropping for more than 40 years, by hundreds of feet at points in Mexico. China's problem is amplified by the Dam saturating the ground, whereas our problem is amplified by pulling the water out. China's water is mixed with seawater, can't use, and ours is simply drying up because we're farming deserts. Our's is fixable. Desalinate, move water to the headwaters, refill, take about 20 years. But what a project that would be.