http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Environment/2014/05/26/Qat-habit-drains-Yemens-precious-groundwater/
In the mountains around Sanaa, farmers are drilling so many unlicensed boreholes to irrigate the thirsty crop – craved by the capital’s residents – that the water table is falling by as much as 6m a year. Engineers now have to drill 1,500m in some areas before reaching the aquifer.
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