Which outcome occurs when prolonged drought weakens aquifers?

💡 Explanation

Drought lowers water tables; reduced pore pressure decreases support for overlying sediments which leads to subsidence involving suffosion because soluble rock layers destabilize. Subsidence risk increases rather than decreases; water tables decline; hydro explosions are unrelated.

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