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On a smaller scale, London England and Phoenix AZ also suffer from demand-caused groundwater depletion. There has been some subsidence in London even, I believe.

Posted by: Gray Gaffer | August 19, 2009 7:54 PM

This all boils down to overpopulation. Political correctness and philanthropic payolla (The Sierra Club and David Gelbaum, The David Suzuki Foundation and the Chartered Banks) have made this a taboo topic. The fact remains that developing countries have unsustainably-high birthrates. Coupled with improvements in sanitation and vaccination, the populations of places like South Asia grew dangerously high.

Immigration is also part of the problem. Third-worlders flee the poverty, privations, violence and filth of their homelands, for places like the U.S. Southwest and Southern Alberta, Canada. These are not 'wet' places. Using low-flush toilets and planting fescue instead of Kentucky blue grass isn't going to make a dent in the crisis.

The construction industry and land development lobbies love mass immigration, because it drives growth in housing and associated infrastructure (roads, schools). Conservative Qur'an, Bible and Bhagvad Gita-thumpers want people to be fecund and multiply like flies. Lefties don't like to be 'racist' and criticize third-worlders for having too many babies. If this problem is going to be addressed, it requires massively expanded family planing in the developing world, along with capping immigration to the developed world.

Posted by: Adam C. Sieracki | August 25, 2009 2:09 PM