65% of the groundwater extracted in the world is used for agricultural irrigation, 25% for drinking and utility water, and 10% as industrial water. However, according to a new report that has emerged, the Earth’s tilt may have changed and may even have caused sea levels to rise, as there has been so much groundwater removed by humans in recent years.It has a major effect on the shift of the Earth’s spin pole.
A new study by a research team at South Korea’s Seoul National University, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, suggests that the enormous volumes of water pumped from the ground between 1993 and 2010 literally shifted our planet’s poles.
Geophysicists took data from early climate models just to look at how much water had shifted from the melting of large ice structures, such as ice sheets and glaciers, and then added it to various levels of groundwater extraction. Based on climate models, scientists previously estimated that humans pumped 2,150 gigatons of groundwater from 1993 to 2010, equivalent to more than 6 millimeters of sea level rise.According to the article published in the journal, the researchers found that the Earth tilted almost 31.5 inches in those years. Geophysicist and research leader Ki-Weon Seo said: “Earth’s spin pole is actually changing a lot, and the redistribution of groundwater actually has the biggest impact on the shift of the spin pole, according to this new study.” said.
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