Large cities in China are sinking into the ground, literally, and massive holes are popping up in urban centers like Shanghai, Tianjin, Hebei and Shandong. To put it bluntly the ground is losing its solidity.

It’s because of the mass amounts of groundwater being pumped to support human consumption and according to Linkexperts, Shanghai started slowly sinking in the 1920’s.

Basically, due to rapid urbanization there has been a need to extract more and more groundwater. This leads to cracks in the ground and a decrease in ground stability. The effects are devastating.

http://www.newscorners.com/the-largest-cities-in-china-sinks/