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For years, the ground beneath southwest Delhi quietly sank as its aquifers ran dry. Now, satellites show a rare reversal; the land in Dwarka is lifting again, a sign that the city’s long-depleted groundwater is slowly bouncing back, a study claimed.

The research paper, titled ‘InSAR Reveals Recovery of Stressed Aquifer Systems in Parts of Delhi, India’, published in the Water Resources Research journal, examined satellite data from October 2014 to October 2023.

Land subsidence, or ground sinking, has stopped and reversed in parts of the national capital, it said.

The paper, authored by scientists from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), IIT Kanpur, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, and the University of Miami, reported that Dwarka, one of Delhi’s most groundwater-

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