#aquifer — Public Fediverse posts

Recent Upper Colorado River Streamflow Declines Driven by Loss of Spring Precipitation
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024GL109826 <-- shared 2024 paper
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240816121501.htm <-- shared technical article
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[it would be interesting to see the paper’s author’s updated views/analysis after the 2025/2026 (lack of) winter / record-low snowpack in the Rockies, feeding the Colorado R., etc]
#water #hydrology #waterresources #precipitation #snow #snowpack
#Colorado #ColoradoRiver #planning #allocation #aquifer #surfacewater #groundwater #vegetation #plant #phenology #watercycle #spring #rainfall #snowmelt #sublimation #hydrogeomorphology #runoff #infiltration #checkdams #engineering #keystone #species #beaver #wolf #herbivore #overgrazing #burrows #watertable #research #streamflow #evapotranspiration #restoration
@University of Washington

#NASA:
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NASA Satellites Reveal Aquifer Decline in Brazilian Breadbasket
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".. detailed picture of groundwater change across Brazil. The images reveal significant declines in some of the aquifers that are critical to one of the world’s largest agricultural producers."

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/science-news/2026/06/05/aquifer-decline-in-brazilian-breadbasket/

5.6.2026

#aquifer #Brasilien #Brazil #EO #Erdbeobachtung #GRACEFO #groundwater #GroundwaterLoss #Grundwasser #Klimakrise #Klimawandel #Raumfahrt #Satelliten #SpaceFlight #Wasser #Water

#NASA:
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NASA Satellites Reveal Aquifer Decline in Brazilian Breadbasket
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".. detailed picture of groundwater change across Brazil. The images reveal significant declines in some of the aquifers that are critical to one of the world’s largest agricultural producers."

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/science-news/2026/06/05/aquifer-decline-in-brazilian-breadbasket/

5.6.2026

#aquifer #Brasilien #Brazil #EO #Erdbeobachtung #GRACEFO #groundwater #GroundwaterLoss #Grundwasser #Klimakrise #Klimawandel #Raumfahrt #Satelliten #SpaceFlight #Wasser #Water

#NASA:
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NASA Satellites Reveal Aquifer Decline in Brazilian Breadbasket
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".. detailed picture of groundwater change across Brazil. The images reveal significant declines in some of the aquifers that are critical to one of the world’s largest agricultural producers."

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/science-news/2026/06/05/aquifer-decline-in-brazilian-breadbasket/

5.6.2026

#aquifer #Brasilien #Brazil #EO #Erdbeobachtung #GRACEFO #groundwater #GroundwaterLoss #Grundwasser #Klimakrise #Klimawandel #Raumfahrt #Satelliten #SpaceFlight #Wasser #Water

#NASA:
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NASA Satellites Reveal Aquifer Decline in Brazilian Breadbasket
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".. detailed picture of groundwater change across Brazil. The images reveal significant declines in some of the aquifers that are critical to one of the world’s largest agricultural producers."

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/science-news/2026/06/05/aquifer-decline-in-brazilian-breadbasket/

5.6.2026

#aquifer #Brasilien #Brazil #EO #Erdbeobachtung #GRACEFO #groundwater #GroundwaterLoss #Grundwasser #Klimakrise #Klimawandel #Raumfahrt #Satelliten #SpaceFlight #Wasser #Water

#NASA:
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NASA Satellites Reveal Aquifer Decline in Brazilian Breadbasket
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".. detailed picture of groundwater change across Brazil. The images reveal significant declines in some of the aquifers that are critical to one of the world’s largest agricultural producers."

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/science-news/2026/06/05/aquifer-decline-in-brazilian-breadbasket/

5.6.2026

#aquifer #Brasilien #Brazil #EO #Erdbeobachtung #GRACEFO #groundwater #GroundwaterLoss #Grundwasser #Klimakrise #Klimawandel #Raumfahrt #Satelliten #SpaceFlight #Wasser #Water

Building Damage Risk In Sinking Indian Megacities
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-025-01663-0 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-X-G-2025-613-2025 <-- shared paper
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https://www.downtoearth.org.in/urbanisation/writing-on-the-wall-groundwater-exploitation-is-triggering-subsidence-in-indo-gangetic-plain-90523 <-- shared media article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #India #subsidence #risk #hazard #groundwater #depletion #exploitation #pumping #sinking #overpumping #aquifer #watermanagement #structural #damage #infrastructure #cost #residential #publicsafety #economics #engineering #construction #buildingcodes #remotesensing #model #modeling #satellite #earthobservation #elevation #megacities #city #cities #urban #differential #settlement #planning #policy #mitigation #maintainence #inSAR #verticallandmovement #VLM #engineeringgeology #geostatistics #flood #flooding #sediment

Atop The Oregon Cascades, [Research] Team Finds A Huge Buried Aquifer
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https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1069774 <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2415155122 <-- shared paper
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https://www.usgs.gov/centers/oregon-water-science-center/science/mckenzie-river-source-water-study <-- shared USGS technical article, 2011, ‘McKenzie River Source Water Study’
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https://youtu.be/6R8e5HwGMwU?si=sniW4bvvzzviTYie <-- shared media video overview
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #model #modeling #water #hydrology #Oregon #Cascades #CascadeMountains #PNW #PacificNorthwest #volcanic #rocks #aquifer #waterresources #watermanagement #climatechange #snowpack #drought #spatialanalysis #CriticalZone #geohazards #geology #engineeringgeology #landscapes #weathering #bedrock #holocene #groundwater #structuralgeology #orogeny #remotesensing #geophysics #sampling #drilling #porosity #permability #tomography #lava #spring #seep #breccia #discharge #streams #runoff #precipitation #climate #rainfall #recharge

Over A Third Of Groundwater In USA Public-Supply Aquifers Is Anthropocene-Age And Susceptible To Surface Contamination
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00473-y <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #USA #hydrology #water #watersecurity #publicsupply #aquifer #contamination #pollution #waterquality #waterresources #groundwater #distribution #modeling #model #potablewater #tracers #anthropocene #holocene #pleistocene #age #dating #confined #unconfined #infiltration #pumping #extraction #recharge #porosity #permeability

Rampant Groundwater Pumping Has Changed the Tilt of Earth’s Axis
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rampant-groundwater-pumping-has-changed-the-tilt-of-earths-axis/ <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL103509 <-- shared paper
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“ • Earth's pole has drifted toward 64.16°E at a speed of 4.36 cm/yr during 1993–2010 due to groundwater depletion and resulting sea level rise

• Including groundwater depletion effects, the estimated drift of Earth's rotational pole agrees remarkably well with observations…”
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #geodetic #geodesy #earth #water #research #earthaxis #axis #pole #gravity #remotesensing #groundwater #pumping #global #waterresources #watersecurity #watersupply #sealevelrise #subsidence #earthobservation #aquifer

'It will poison everything.' #NativeAmericans protest #YuccaMountain #Nuclear Waste site

by Ed Komenda, May 22, 2019

"“Those transportation routes go through any number of sensitive habitats where a #derailment or a truck accident could cause significant impacts on water or on wildlife that live along those transportation corridors,' Donnelly [Nevada state director for the Center for Biological Diversity] said.

"The office of #Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford identified the complexity of waste transport as one of many reasons storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain does little to protect the #environment and people. Other concerns include national security (waste shipments as terrorist targets) and geology (Yucca's aquifer drains to the #AmargosaValley – home to more than 1,400 people and several #endangered species). [And is seismically unstable]

"'#Contamination from Yucca Mountain could very easily contaminate the #aquifer,' Donnelly said, 'and thus contaminate all sorts of springs that harbor some kind of endemic life.'"

#NoNukes #WaterIsLife #EnvironmentalRacism

https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2019/05/22/yucca-mountain-nuclear-waste-nevada-test-site/3694806002/