[rene_d]

Asianomics released a video on how withdrawing groundwater can dramatically lower the elevation of entire cities — I was surprised by how large an effect just a couple of years of human activity can have.

China's sinking land problem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu_Y4hJmqGE

[gcanyon]

California's Central Valley has subsided as much as 28 feet in the past century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Valley_land_subsidence

[password4321]

Humans have pumped enough groundwater to change the tilt of the Earth (2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36366137