depleting

In addition to the melting of glaciers and ice caps, many regions are getting drier and depleting their groundwater.

Short-term rental companies have been accused of depleting housing stock by removing them from the long-term rental market, thereby driving up rents and exacerbating L.A.’s homelessness crisis.

And arguably even more pressingly: should Britain be thinking more broadly about how to save our depleting woodlands - and is legal protection enough or is a fundamental rethink required?

His central argument was that individuals acting independently and rationally according to their own self-interest behave contrary to the whole group’s long-term best interests by depleting or spoiling the shared resource.

Similarly, in 1994/95, after the rain abundant winter, rainfall was above average but it turned much drier in the spring and summer leading to river and reservoir levels quickly depleting.