Word: overtaxed
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...world's rivers into a series of interconnected lakes. Such a water system, like nothing seen since the end of the last ice age, has dire consequences for thousands of species adapted to free-flowing water. Human alteration of the water cycle also extends underground as farms and cities overtax aquifers, sometimes irretrievably damaging these reservoirs of groundwater as the land subsides and salt water intrudes...