With torrential rains drenching California, state water regulators have endorsed a plan to divert floodwaters from the San Joaquin River to replenish groundwater that has been depleted by heavy agricultural pumping during ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 13, 2023
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Climate change directly affects groundwater resources. Groundwater levels in Germany threaten to fall in the next decades. This is the result of a study made by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Federal Institute ...
Environment
Apr 13, 2022
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Communities that rely on the Colorado River are facing a water crisis. Lake Mead, the river's largest reservoir, has fallen to levels not seen since it was created by the construction of the Hoover Dam roughly a century ago. ...
Environment
Oct 7, 2021
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Amid historic drought and changing rainfall patterns, a groundwater market in the California desert could serve as a template for the future of water management.
Economics & Business
Sep 29, 2021
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Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have created a balance sheet for water across the United States—tracking total water storage in 14 of the country's major aquifers over 15 years.
Environment
Aug 19, 2021
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Less than two hours from Madrid, 76-year-old Francisca Benitez has to brush her teeth every night with bottled water because her village has no supply of drinking water.
Environment
Jul 30, 2021
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The entire ecosystem of the planet, including humans, depends on clean water. When carbonate rock weathers, karst areas are formed, from which around a quarter of the world's population obtains its drinking water. Scientists ...
Environment
May 12, 2021
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Induced bank filtration is a key and well-established approach to provide drinking water supply to populated areas located along rivers or lakes and with limited access to groundwater resources. It is employed in several ...
Environment
May 10, 2021
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A new technique using dissolved noble gas tracers sheds light on how water moves through an aquifer, with implications for water resources and their vulnerability to climate change.
Earth Sciences
Apr 21, 2021
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Fewer of the world's large aquifers are depleting than previously estimated, according to a new study by the University of Sussex and UCL.
Earth Sciences
Aug 26, 2020
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