This is not a new phenomenon, it is a progressive one, which started some time ago…
https://www.unicef.org/wash/water-scarcity
https://earth.org/depleted-aquifers-causes-effects-and-solutions/
https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/groundwater-decline-and-depletion
https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2425
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00070-3
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/24/climate/groundwater-global-study-scn/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/28/climate/groundwater-drying-climate-change.html
In the US, our solution to depleted aquifers is to… drill deeper.
https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources/science/land-subsidence
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Approximate point of maximum subsidence in the San Joaquin Valley, California. Land surface subsided ~9 m from 1925 to 1977 due to aquifer-system compaction. Signs on the telephone pole indicate the former elevations of the land surface in 1925 and 1955.
Photograph by Richard Ireland, U.S. Geological Survey
NASA has been documenting ground water using GRACE.
https://grace.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/29/15-years-of-grace-earth-observations/
For 15 years, the GRACE mission has unlocked mysteries of how water moves around our planet. It gave us the first view of underground aquifers from space, and shows how fast polar ice sheets and mountain glaciers are melting.
Credit
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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