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Harris County: Land sinking, underground water withdrawalIn short, drawing too much water from underground aquifers can change the landscape. That said, experts are sounding the alarm on this apparent "environmental threat causing Texas neighborhoods to sink". 'Once it's compressed, it's not coming back up'. "In the past 100 years (but mostly in the past 40), suburbs of Houston, Texas, have experienced "subsidence" - a phenomenon in which the ground sinks. As of 2021, Spring had sunk by an average of 4.2 feet, The Woodlands dropped by 2.5 feet, and Conroe sank 1.5 feet, Community Impact reports. At a hotspot along I-45 near Cypress Station, the total damage was a whopping 5 feet. Subsidence occurs because people pump groundwater out of aquifers to use or sell, Community Impact reveals. Some water use is all right, because the aquifers get replenished as water from above filters into the soil. But there is such a thing as too much."More on this story here: