Tag: groundwater
Massive Global Study Shows “Rapid and Accelerating” Groundwater Loss – Mother Jones
David Roth, President of the Cecelia Packing, in front of a new orange crop after the Central Valley region’s catastrophic water shortages.Renée C. Byer/ZUMA
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Groundwater supplies are dwindling in aquifers around the world, a groundbreaking new study found, with the rates of decline accelerating over the past four decades in nearly a third of aquifers studied.
Many agricultural centers
Rising groundwater threatens to spread toxic pollution on U.S. coastlines
Hidden flows of water are poised to flush toxic contamination into U.S. coastal communities.
Sea level rise from climate change won’t just force shorelines to retreat — in inland areas, it will guilefully lift groundwater into shallower soils. That rising water could infiltrate hundreds of U.S. Superfund sites — severely polluted locations identified by the Environmental Protection Agency for cleanup — researchers warn in a preliminary study posted May 25 to ESS Open Archive.
These sites — and thousands