Por: Los Angeles Times Nation March 11, 2023
With torrential rains drenching California, state water regulators have endorsed a plan to divert floodwaters from the San Joaquin River to replenish groundwater that has been depleted by heavy agricultural pumping during three years of record drought. The State Water Resources Control Board approved a request by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to take more than 600,000 acre-feet from the river and send much of that water flowing to areas where... + full article
Los Angeles Times USA Nation March 03, 2023
California regulators have told local agencies in large portions of the San Joaquin Valley that their plans for combating overpumping of groundwater are inadequate, a step that clears the way for state intervention to curb chronic declines in water levels and prevent more wells... + más
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Newsweek USA Tech January 17, 2023
Parts of California could be in deep trouble in the coming years if more reservoirs are not built to meet the demand for water, with some towns already suffering from major shortages as a result of the megadrought that has gripped the state for decades.Record rainfall has hit... + más
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The Boston Globe USA Nation December 22, 2022
Climate change will deplete groundwater levels across the Greater Boston area after 2030, putting drinking water, plants, wildlife and infrastructure at risk, a recent shows.Groundwater seeps underground through cracks and spaces in soil, sand, and rock. In recent years, the... + más
Los Angeles Times USA Nation December 22, 2022
Scientists have discovered that the pace of groundwater depletion in California’s Central Valley has accelerated dramatically during the drought as heavy agricultural pumping has drawn down aquifer levels to new lows and now threatens to devastate the underground water... + más
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Associated Press USA Health December 14, 2022
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s natural resources board on Wednesday voted unanimously to proceed with regulating so-called forever chemicals in the state’s groundwater, 10 months after a plan was scrapped under pressure from the state’s powerful business industry.The... + más
Study: Toxic PFAS chemical plume detected in Green Bay | Associated Press
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Los Angeles Times USA Nation November 18, 2022
Thousands of years ago during the last Ice Age, rivers flowed from giant glaciers in the Sierra Nevada down to the Central Valley, carving into rock and gouging channels at a time when the sea level was about 400 feet lower. When the glaciers retreated, meltwater coursed down... + más
The Boston Globe USA Tech September 19, 2022
Akhila Ram, a 12th-grader at Lexington High School, isn’t exactly like other high school students.In her free time she enjoys baking, painting – and inventing technologies to map out groundwater levels across the United States in order to monitor problems like water... + más
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