全球主要地下含水层下降速度惊人

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VOA Chinese, June 17, 2015.
www.voachinese.com/content/nasa-aquifer-20150617/2826549.html

Note:
(a) The VOA report is based on

Study: Third of Big Groundwater Basins in Distress. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, June 16, 2015 (under contract with NASA).
www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4626
("two new studies led by the University of California, Irvine (UCI), using data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites. * * * The findings are published today in Water Resources Research")
(b) Only the first of the two findings has more to do with China. Even so, what is said in the first finding is obvious to everybody.

Alexander S Richey, Quantifying Renewable Groundwater Stress with GRACE. Water Resources Research, _: _  (online publication: June 16, 2015)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/2015WR017349/asset/wrcr21550.pdf?v=1&t=ib2twqak&s=4d08c783e6c53a0098bb797382e6aa66392b683e
("There are five aquifers with negative rates of use where the statistics-based withdrawal rate exceeds the GRACE-based estimates. These include the Ganges, the Indus Basin (Aquifer #23, 'Indus'), the Californian Central Valley Aquifer System (Aquifer #16, 'Central Valley'),
the North China Aquifer System (Aquifer #29, 'North China[']), and the Tarim Basin (Aquifer #31, 'Tarim')")

* "Aquifer ID" [read: assigned number] and "name" are toward the end of the finding, which has no page number--because the URL -- in (b) -- is for a manuscript, not the final format from the publisher: Wiley.  So search text of this finding with (China) and you will find all three references of China in this finding, which I reproduce in the quotation.
(c) The two findings do not mention Taiwan. No news is good news.