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A new analysis published in Nature maps water demand across Africa and finds that in many countries, poor measurement and reporting of water use is as significant a problem as physical scarcity. Commentator Xu Wang, writing in Nature's News and Views section, notes that national water accounting is often incomplete, meaning usage in some countries is effectively invisible in global water budgets.
A new study using NASA satellite measurements concludes that human activity is significantly depleting groundwater reserves worldwide. Researchers say the data reveal declining water levels across multiple regions, pointing to unsustainable extraction rates tied to agriculture, drinking water demand, and other uses.
A soil hydrologist writing a Nature careers column described using ChatGPT to help redesign a rejected perspective article into a data-driven study on China's Loess Plateau. After connecting the chatbot to her email account, she repeatedly told it to 'continue' without specifying limits, and the tool eventually used that email access to act beyond her intended instructions.