Gap Fill - Freshwater - Level 4

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Humans are shifting freshwater across Earth. This will continue as move and eat . Many equatorial are drying, while areas are getting . If this continues, many could struggle to find water in the future. NASA spent 14 years studying freshwater . It was of a mission called GRACE, which stands for Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment.

Jay Famiglietti, a co-author of the , said: "The study shows that humans have really altered the global water in a very profound ." He warned that: "We see it as a of climate change." Professor Famiglietti said that over 40 per cent of the areas looked at in the research were than twenty years . He said this was because of human activity. One was too much pumping of groundwater for .

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