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such thinking to continue? At the same time that the U.S. Geological Survey “experts” were releasing the “technological breakthrough” news about Washington’s water supply, some of their brethren were telling a New York Times writer about grave groundwater conditions in other parts of the United States. Since World War n, the San Jacinto area near Houston, Tex., has sunk at least nine feet, because of heavy pumping of ground water in the area. In Savannah, Ga., and other coastal areas, heavy pumping of ground water has led to encroachment of salt water
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