{
  "id": 2129320,
  "title": "The “Asian water tower” is losing 24 billion tonnes of groundwater every year",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/the-asian-water-tower-is-losing-24-billion-tonnes-of-groundwater",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-20T09:21:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "ScienceDaily",
    "slug": "sciencedaily",
    "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260820002454.htm"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The “Asian Water Tower” is losing roughly 24.2 billion tonnes of groundwater every year, with some of the worst declines hitting densely populated farming regions. Glacier melt may temporarily soften the crisis around the 2060s, but without changes in water use, researchers expect depletion to accelerate afterward.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}