You've got Erie to the North, the Ohio to the South East, and about 40 inches of rainfall per year, or 81M acre-feet of water for the whole state in precipitation, or around ~80 BILLION gallons of rain water per day.
The water is returned to the atmosphere as vapor, not transmuted into bismuth and shipped overseas, never to be seen again.
You're talking about 1/20,000th of the rain water.
Okay, it's not nothing. But it's not going to ruin all the farms or something.
You would be surprised how little water drop is required to cause wells to "go dry". When wells are punched into an aquifer, they stop when they hit water, they don't keep going to be deeper. A water level drop of just 2 inches caused all sorts of issues for locals when Intel built its new Fabs in New Mexico.
Intel said that it wouldn't be an issue, yet when it happened, they did nothing to help and forced a huge number of people to have to put in new wells. The same will happen in Ohio.
You've got Erie to the North, the Ohio to the South East, and about 40 inches of rainfall per year, or 81M acre-feet of water for the whole state in precipitation, or around ~80 BILLION gallons of rain water per day.
The water is returned to the atmosphere as vapor, not transmuted into bismuth and shipped overseas, never to be seen again.
You're talking about 1/20,000th of the rain water.
Okay, it's not nothing. But it's not going to ruin all the farms or something.