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'A harbinger of what's to come:' NASA satellites show massive drop in global freshwater levels

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Since 2015 , our planet's lakes, rivers and aquifers have lost 290 cubic miles ( 1,200 cubic km ) of fresh water.

This drop coincided with a 2014 to 2016 period of El Niño warming.

Scientists typically expect freshwater levels to rebound after the climate oscillation ends.

But satellite measurements, made up to 2023 , reveal that the freshwater levels have yet to recover.

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