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Groundwater has the potential to support broad economic, humanitarian and social development in sub-Saharan Africa, as it has in other regions globally.
As surface water diminishes in the Western US, people are drilling deeper wells – and tapping into older groundwater that can take thousands of years to replenish naturally.
The US has one of the highest groundwater use rates in the world. When wells run dry, households may opt to conserve water, find new sources or sell and move.
The Supreme Court recently dealt defeat to Florida in its 20-year legal battle with Georgia over river water. Other interstate water contests loom, but there are no sure winners in these lawsuits.
Drought-driven humanitarian emergencies can be prevented if groundwater is reliably made available at strategic locations.
Many African countries tend to mismanage their groundwater resources.
Groundwater is often seen as a resource that never runs out. This isn’t true.
The Ogalalla Aquifer is a vast underground lake that irrigates farms across the US Great Plains. It took thousands of years to fill, but human use could drain it in roughly a century.
Perth, unlike Cape Town, faces no prospect of its tapwater running out. But other problems lurk beneath the surface, as the city’s drying climate puts increasing pressure on irrigation and wetlands.
Groundwater is out of sight, but it shouldn’t be out of mind. As cities struggle to cope with drought, we should remember that our largest stocks of water are hidden deep underground.
At present, the Middle East and North African region contains 7% of the world’s population but only has access to 1.5% of its renewable freshwater supply through rainfall.
Millions of livelihoods depend on the Indus Basin aquifer.
There’s enough water under the ground to form a lake 100m deep over the earth.
The digging of wells in Africa has often been thought of as the solution to helping rural women walking to get water, but they may cause more harm than good.
Built-up urban environments transform the resource of rainwater into wasted runoff. Low Impact Development mimics nature to help get stormwater into the natural water system.
The Queensland government wants companies to use waste water from coal seam gas extraction for useful purposes such as recharging aquifers. New CSIRO research shows that, with careful monitoring, it can be done.
In a recent article on The Conversation, Queensland coal seam gas (CSG) researchers argued that the industry is progressing faster than the science, leading to concerns over fugitive emissions and impacts…
On Wednesday, Queensland’s parliament passed water reform legislation that will make it easier to take and use water, particularly for large mining and agriculture projects. The state government also recently…
A study of 1,400 coastal aquifers in North America finds that most coastal aquifers are relatively unaffected by rising sea…
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Senior lecturer, Nelson Mandela University
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Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Emeritus, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct professor, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor, Connected Waters Initiative, UNSW Sydney
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Research scientist, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Government, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto
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Research Scientist: Land and Water, CSIRO
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Professor, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney
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Honorary Fellow, Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne
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W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History, Pomona College
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Doctoral Researcher, Department for International Development, University of Sussex
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Visiting Professor, King's College London
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Assistant Professor | Department of Geosciences, University of Arkansas
