Solar-Powered Farming Is Quickly Depleting the World's Groundwater Supply | WIRED

This eliminates using fossil fuels and boosts crop production, but is drying up aquifers around the globe.

• Farmers in arid regions are turning to low-cost solar pumps to irrigate their fields. 

"There is a solar-powered revolution going on in the fields of India. 

By 2026, more than 3 million farmers will be raising irrigation water from beneath their fields using solar-powered pumps. 

With effectively free water available in almost unlimited quantities to grow their crops, their lives could be transformed.

• Until the water runs out.

...But as a result, water tables are falling rapidly.

There is little rain to replace the water being pumped to the surface...