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ArticleNature communications2025

Unprecedented large-scale aquifer recovery through human intervention.

Di Long, Yuancheng Xu, Yingjie Cui, Yanhong Cui, James J Butler, Liang Dong, Longfeng Wang, Dongyong Liu, Yoshihide Wada, Litang Hu and 11 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

21 authors.

Di Long *State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. dlong@tsinghua.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9033-5039
Yuancheng Xu *State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3001-2435
Yingjie Cui *State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8206-0554
Yanhong CuiState Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
James J ButlerKansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA.
Liang DongState Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Longfeng WangChina Institute of Geo-Environment Monitoring, Beijing, China.
Dongyong LiuChina Institute of Geo-Environment Monitoring, Beijing, China.
Yoshihide WadaBiological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thwal, Saudi Arabia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4770-2539
Litang HuCollege of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3888-6324
Guoying BaiBeijing Hydrology Center, Beijing, China.
Binghua LiBeijing Water Science and Technology Institute, Beijing, China.
Shufang WangBeijing Institute of Geological Environment Monitoring, Beijing, China.
Xizhi NongState Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8945-0977
Yang CaiInformation Center, Ministry of Water Resources, Beijing, China.
Chunsheng ChengInformation Center, Ministry of Water Resources, Beijing, China.
Yuhan MuInformation Center, Ministry of Water Resources, Beijing, China.
Yu QiaoChina South-to-North Water Diversion Corporation Limited, Beijing, China.
Jianhua WangState Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Water Security, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4641-6274
Hao WangState Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Water Security, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing, China.
Bridget R ScanlonBureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1234-4199

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 52079065National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 52325901
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Groundwater depletion is a critical global challenge, particularly in intensively cultivated drylands, with few documented cases of successful recovery. Here, we report a striking reversal of long-term groundwater decline in the North China Plain, one of the world's most severely depleted aquifers. Based on a comprehensive analysis of groundwater levels from over 2000 monitoring wells spanning the past two decades, we show that groundwater levels have risen at an average rate of ~0.7 m year

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