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Water Woes: Vast US Aquifer Is Being Tapped Out

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Denise Chow, Aug 26, 2013
An irrigation system sprays water on a cornfield. Credit: Kansas State University Photo Services
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Nearly 70 percent of the groundwater stored in parts of the United States' High Plains Aquifer — a vast underground reservoir that stretches through eight states, from South Dakota to Texas, and supplies 30 percent of the nation's irrigated groundwater — could be used up within 50 years, unless current water use is reduced, a new study finds.

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World Happiness Report 2013

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John Helliwell, richard layard and Jeffrey sachs
World Happiness Report 2013
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Table of ConTenTs 1. Introduction2. World Happiness: Trends, explanations and Distribution 3. Mental Illness and Unhappiness 4. The objective benefits of subjective Well-being 5. Restoring Virtue ethics in the Quest for Happiness 6. Using Well-being as a Guide to Policy7. The oeCD approach to Measuring subjective Well-being 8.

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