Which risk significantly increases when groundwater extraction exceeds recharge in karst cave systems?

💡 Explanation

The risk of sinkhole collapse increases due to increased groundwater extraction, because the effective stress rises as a result of decreased pore pressure and thus soil destabilizes via the mechanism of effective stress reduction; therefore, sinkholes form rather than allowing slower dissolution, due to matrix support loss.

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