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Latin America

TlalocW

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1. In the 90s, I remember seeing two photos

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Dec 11, 2014, 04:46 PM

Dec 2014

Of the same thing in Mexico City - of a simple water pump coming out of the ground - the kind where you pull up on a lever and water comes out. In the first picture taken in the 50/60s when it was just put in, the pump was 2 feet off the ground like it should be. In the second picture, taken in the 80/90s, the pump was now ten feet in the air - the ground had sunk around it revealing more of the pipe it was connected to that once had been underground. It was a stark example of what's happening.

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Mexico City sinking as aquifer exhausted [View all] Judi Lynn Dec 2014 OP

In the 90s, I remember seeing two photos TlalocW Dec 2014 #1

That IS a shocking example, absolutely no doubt. I've never seen that happen to one of those pumps. Judi Lynn Dec 2014 #2