The United States is withdrawing groundwater from aquifers at a rate that is, on average, ____.

A. equal to the rate that they are recharged
B. four hundred times faster than they can be recharged
C. four times faster than they can be recharged
D. two times slower than the rate of recharge
E. twenty times slower than the rate of recharge


Answer: C

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