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The center of the Earth has shifted. What's wrong with using groundwater?

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 According to a study that was published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the brilliant Earth's axis is moving east at a rate of about 1.7 inches per year as a result of persistent groundwater extraction and relocation during the past ten years. According to the study's principal investigator, geophysicist Ki-Weon Seo of Seoul National University, "Our study shows that among climate-related causes, the redistribution of groundwater actually has the largest impact on the drift of the rotational pole." According to the study, groundwater from the Earth's interior had been removed by humans more than 2,150 gigatons between 1993 and 2010. These researchers were from Korea, Australia, and the U.S. According to The Washington Post, that much water could fill more than 860 million pools. Western North America and northwest India have drawn the most groundwater, and "if that amount were poured into the ocean, it would raise global sea levels by about 0.24...