The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (Searca) has warned over the increased risk of groundwater supply depletion by 2050.

The study, which was funded by Searca, was conducted by Dr. Victor Ella of the University of the Philippines-Los Baños (UPLB) simulating the effects of a high temperature and low precipitation regime in Bay, Laguna—an existing shallow aquifer that has supplied water for irrigation and domestic use for hundreds of years.

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