Groundwater is rapidly declining across the globe, often at accelerating rates. Writing in the journal Nature, UC Santa Barbara researchers present the largest assessment of groundwater levels around ...
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Groundwater accounts for around 30 per cent of the world’s freshwater, making it an important resource for addressing current global issues, such as world population growth, agricultural ...
In 1997 Union County in southern Arkansas faced a serious crisis: its key water source, the Sparta Aquifer, was declining by as much as two meters per year. This underground reservoir of water trapped ...
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The world’s groundwater aquifers are taking a beating. Decades of unrestrained pumping by thirsty farms and fast-growing cities have drained these underground rock beds, which hold more than 95 ...
Humans rely on groundwater for many things, but especially our food. Roughly 30 percent of all the planet's available freshwater comes from groundwater, or water that is found underground in the ...
A new monitoring model combining satellite images with artificial intelligence can identify variations in the volume of Brazilian aquifers. The Urucuia, one of the largest aquifers in the Cerrado ...
EL DORADO -- A groundwater report last month warned current pumping levels from Arkansas' primary aquifers are not sustainable in the long term, but groundwater levels at the Sparta aquifer in Union ...