New way to protect precious water
Australian scientists have devised a way to model polluted groundwater with computer simulation – and better protect the Earth's main fresh water supply.
Environment
Apr 10, 2013
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High salt levels in Saharan groundwater endanger oases farming
For more than 40 years, snowmelt and runoff from Morocco's High Atlas Mountains has been dammed and redirected hundreds of kilometers to the south to irrigate oases farms in the arid, sub-Saharan Draa Basin.
Environment
Apr 8, 2013
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Distinguishing drought and water scarcity
Water resources can become strained by both natural factors such as drought and by human factors such as unsustainable use. Water resource managers can develop practices to reduce overuse of water resources, but they cannot ...
Environment
Mar 15, 2013
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80% of Indian sewage 'flows untreated into rivers'
Eighty percent of sewage in India is untreated and flows directly into the nation's rivers, polluting the main sources of drinking water, a study by an environment watchdog showed Tuesday.
Environment
Mar 5, 2013
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Crumbling bores 'jeopardise nation's water'
Fifteen thousand collapsing bores – and a half-billion dollar repair bill – are endangering the future of Australia's largest and most precious resource, its groundwater.
Environment
Feb 5, 2013
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Groundwater fate and climate change
(Phys.org)—Simon Fraser University earth scientist Diana Allen, a co-author on a new paper about climate changes' impacts on the world's ground water, says climate change may be exacerbating many countries' experience of ...
Environment
Jan 28, 2013
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Salt menaces coastal water supplies
Invading seawater threatens to pollute or destroy scores of Australia's coastal water supplies, water scientists have warned.
Environment
Jan 16, 2013
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GRACE mission offers a much needed view of Earth's water supplies
The signature of drought was easy to read in the southern United States in the summer of 2011. It was in the brown, wilted crops and the bare fields. It was in the clouds of dust that rolled across the sky and in the shrinking ...
Environment
Sep 14, 2012
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Groundwater a viable resource for Malaysians
A report on productive aquifers in hard rock on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia suggests greater water supply than has previously been recognised. The work, published in the Pertanika Journal of Science and Technology, ...
Environment
Sep 5, 2012
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Groundwater depletion in semiarid regions of Texas and California threatens US food security
The nation's food supply may be vulnerable to rapid groundwater depletion from irrigated agriculture, according to a new study by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and elsewhere.
Environment
May 28, 2012
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