Since groundwater is a local resource, solutions to its runaway depletion will likely be local too.
That is Sarah Jane Keller, from a High Country News piece on the Castle et al. paper on groundwater depletion in the Colorado River Basin.
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A few thoughts from John Fleck, a writer of journalism and other things, living in New Mexico
Yuck. Impacts from depleted groundwater tend to be at least statewide. Loss of storage space, damage to infrastructure due to compaction, demands made for the replacement of the lost resource — those are all going to remain local too? I very much doubt it.