2011-12 China Beijing Choke Point AJaffe IMG_9900

A community in Hebei Province, just outside of Beijing, drills for water to replace a dry well. The proliferation of such wells in the Beijing region is causing the land to sink, a process called subsidence. Photo © Aaron Jaffe / Circle of Blue

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