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     October 13, 2011    
           
     
    
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           Groundwater Runoff Also Causes Sea Level Rise  
        
 
     
     
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		        In a study considered to be one of the first to quantify groundwater
 use and its effect on sea level rise, researchers at the US Geological 
Survey report in the September 25, 2011 issue of “New Scientist” 
magazine that groundwater runoff causes increases nearly equal to those 
resulting from ice melt in Greenland and Antarctica combined.              
        
 
     
   
 
 
 
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