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"Groundwater depletion will soon be as important a factor in contributing to sea-level rise as the melting of glaciers other than those in Greenland and Antarctica, scientists say."

Page 22 and onwards states the negative impacts of over extraction of ground water resources

Nestlé is draining developing countries' groundwater to make its Pure Life bottled water, destroying countries' natural resources. Now Nestlé is moving into Pakistan and sucking up the local water supply, rendering entire areas uninhabitable in order to sell mineral-enriched water to the upper class as a status symbol, while the poor watch wells run dry and their children fall ill.