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Air quality in North India and links with groundwater management

29th November 2022
Air quality in North India and links with groundwater management
Caption: Haze and mist affecting visibility, Delhi, October 2022. Photo credits: Swamini Khurana.

by Swamini Khurana Air pollution in India, particularly in north India, is a long-standing problem (1,2) with reportedly 63% of Indians living in areas exceeding the WHO guidelines for PM2.5 levels of 40 µg/m3. This makes India one of the most polluted countries in the world (typically among the worst 5 countries over the past 4-5 years (3)), along with Pakistan and Bangladesh. In fact, this makes ...[Read More]

Groundwater: a sensitive but powerful tool

8th November 2022
Groundwater: a sensitive but powerful tool
Caption: Source: medium.com

Guest contribution by Dr. Rosario Sanchez Flores, TAMU Yes, water is a delicate resource. You can barely hold it in your hand, but you can certainly feel it within your fingers; your skin; your nervous system. It has the power to change the energy of our body. It is as natural as magic. We convince ourselves that we control it, but it surprises us every time we think we understood it. It is not a ...[Read More]

Urban Groundwater II: Heading for the coast

28th September 2022
Photo credit: Shutterstock.
Figure 1: Perth is expanding along the coast into areas with shallow groundwater.

by Margaret Shanafield (Flinders University), Ana Manero (Australian National University), Sally Thompson (University of Western Australia), and Greg Claydon Few urban home buyers are picking their dream home based on depth to groundwater. Yet that water level can play an important role in the quality of life in their new home. Typically, it is only after moving in that residents realise problems ...[Read More]

Why so salty? Coastal groundwater quality under threat

11th August 2022
Why so salty? Coastal groundwater quality under threat
View over the Llobregat delta, where groundwater quality suffers from seawater intrusion https://web.archive.org/web/20161015110631/http://www.panoramio.com/photo/33131577

Guest contribution from Daniel Kretschmer, University of Potsdam European groundwater quality is deteriorated by seawater intrusion, the displacement of freshwater by a landward movement of seawater (Custodio, 2010). Just south of Barcelona, the deep confined aquifer at the Llobregat river delta has experienced SWI of several kilometers due to intensive groundwater abstraction in the 20th century ...[Read More]

The rise and fall of urban groundwater

8th July 2022
The rise and fall of urban groundwater
Figure 2 No play today. Groundwater flooding in Sydney in 2007. (Photo: Ian Acworth)

Original Article by Andy Baker and Margaret Shanafield Cities are home to about half of the global population and urban population has doubled in the last 50 years from 1.5 billion people in 1975 to 3.5 billion people in 2015. This urban population will rise to a predicted 5 billion people by 2050. So, it’s probable that most of us will be reading this from a city. So, city dwellers, do you know h ...[Read More]

Groundwater: depleting reserves must be protected around the world

20th May 2022
Groundwater: depleting reserves must be protected around the world
A well brings groundwater to the surface at an oasis in Egypt. Water Alternatives Photos, CC BY-SA

Original Article post here on theconversation.com, authored by Richard Taylor and Mohammad Shamsudduha (‘Shams’) Though water is central to our everyday lives and indeed life itself, we often mark World Water Day on March 22 not by reminding ourselves of all that water brings, but of the consequences of its absence or contamination.         As the American polymath Benjamin Franklin no ...[Read More]

Bright Spots in Groundwater Management

4th May 2022
Bright Spots in Groundwater Management

Announcing a new series of articles By Swamini Khurana Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is the coordinated management of natural resources including both water and land. IWRM informs a sustainable path to development without leaving a holistic view of ecosystems out of the context. Thus, it brings together professionals from a wide variety of professional backgrounds to ensure this hol ...[Read More]

AGU Hydrology Students talk JEDI, awards, and recognizing student success at AGU townhall

22nd February 2022
AGU Hydrology Students talk JEDI, awards, and recognizing student success at AGU townhall

By David Litwin At the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in December 2021, the AGU Hydrology Section Student Subcommittee (H3S) convened a townhall “Coming Together After Being Apart…” where the AGU Hydrology Section leadership were available for questions from the community, updates on current activities, and plans for future section initiatives. The conversation seemed important to share w ...[Read More]

Call for nominations for Water Underground Talks Season 2

16th November 2021
Groundwater marquee for Water Underground Talks

Water Underground Talks elevates diverse voices, perspectives and groundwater research. In Season 1, eleven hydrogeologists from around the world shared their passions and exciting research on the connections between groundwater, climate, food and people. Season 2 will build on the success of Season 1 by releasing ~10 more videos that further elevate diverse voices, perspectives and groundwater re ...[Read More]

Writing a research vision statement in a pandemic

3rd March 2021
Writing a research vision statement in a pandemic
Collected sticky notes from our last in-person activity before the pandemic: brainstorming to write a new research vision and mission statement.

Tom Gleeson, University of Victoria with lots of input from the GSAS research collective We’ve all done weird, new things in the pandemic. We have tried Zoom parlour games and a few of us have done the pandemic tropes of giving bread baking or even giving a new fitness regime a try. Strangely, the very last thing that we did together in person as a research group before the first pandemic lockdown ...[Read More]