Iran’s groundwater resources are rapidly depleting, and everyone should pay attention
It's their problem today, but it's going to be our problem in the future.
Tag: aquifer
Groundwater in the US is overused — and deeper wells isn’t a solution
Are you using water sustainably?
Largest freshwater aquifer of its kind found off the U.S. Northeast coast
The aquifer stretches at least from the shore of Massachusetts to New Jersey.
Groundwater pumping is bleeding the US’s rivers dry
We're hoarding all the supply.
India’s aquifers show “widespread” uranium contamination
India's groundwater problems are getting worse and worse.
Drought and low aquifer levels made the Guadalupe river vanish
Vidal Mendoza, a U.S. Geological Survey hydrologic technician, has been spending his past Tuesday scanning the upper Guadalupe River, looking ...
Massive aquifers beneath the world’s deserts might store more carbon than all living plants
Chinese researchers sampled water from an underground aquifer in the Tarim Basin and found these store vast quantities of carbon ...
Earth’s water basins disappearing at alarming rate, study finds
We tend to think of the Earth's water as an inexhaustible resource; after all, you learn the basic water cycle ...
Huge freshwater reserves found beneath oceans
Scientists have found huge reserves of freshwater in a totally unexpected area: several kilometers offshore, beneath the oceans. This new ...
145 million year old body of seawater found under Chesapeake Bay
Chesapeake Bay is one of the few oceanic impact craters on Earth When the huge impact took place ~35 million ...
Water demand for energy to double by 2035
Water and energy are two of the things we pretty much take for granted - but we shouldn't. Water is ...
Demand for water bigger than supply
Groundwater use is unsustainable in many of the world's major agricultural zones; as a matter of fact, about a quarter ...