Emily Kwong

So there really is a domino effect here.

In places where the aquifer is depleting the most, are people just they're going to run out of water entirely?

That is one possibility.

Yeah.

And our planet, I mean, it has more than 8 billion people at this point.

This is an uncomfortable question to ask, but does our planet have enough water for all of us?

So there is enough water, but not if certain groups of people are using a lot of it.

Oh, that sounds like a research nightmare.

Is there no other way to look at aquifer levels besides monitoring these wells?

So they're using changes in the gravitational field on the Earth's surface as kind of an indicator of water movement.

Can they see if there's more or less water in an area?

Yeah.

Everything flows from water.

And he knows something needs to change.

But it's going to have, again, a domino effect on all these other places and people who he cares about.

Yeah.

Are there examples of people actually doing this, like coming to an agreement about how to share groundwater?

Okay.

So we can do it.

We can live with aquifers and not deplete them entirely.