Emily Kwong

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.

It is possible, yeah, to turn the tides on our declining aquifers.

Burleigh McCoy, thank you for bringing us this reporting and indeed this whole series about water.

Thanks, Emily.

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It was fact-checked by Aru Nair and Angela Zhang.

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