A recent insightful Law360 Expert Analysis by my Integral colleague R. Jeffrey Davis (“Regulators Must Get Creative To Keep Groundwater Flowing”; September 8, 2023) discussed challenges and possible ...

Water security is essential for the sustainability of healthy human populations, economic growth, and the stability of communities and nations. Approximately 30% of all freshwater on Earth exists as ...

Groundwater is a key resource for water users in California’s Central Valley, a major agricultural hub with an economic output of tens of billions of dollars annually. Surface deformation in the ...

Streamflow derived from montane environments is important for downstream communities but is vulnerable due to decreasing snowpack from climate change. Earlier peak flows induced by warming conditions ...

Even though groundwater only makes up an estimated 0.61% of the water on Earth, it accounts for 98% of the available freshwater (Fetter, 1999). In many parts of the world (including southwestern North ...

A schematic representation of groundwater flow patterns. Besides natural recharge and seawater intrusion, anthropogenic effects including groundwater withdrawal and altered recharge and flow patterns ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (AP) — California officials are considering ...

Dalhousie researchers have revealed how Arctic aquifers—permeable layers of the ground that store and transmit water to rivers, lakes and terrestrial ecosystems—behave today and how these vital ...

California might step in to regulate groundwater use in part of the crop-rich San Joaquin Valley, which would be a first-of-its-kind move that comes a decade after lawmakers tasked local communities ...

Frontiers in groundwater modeling were illustrated by Dr. Laura Condon (University of Arizona). Models can be useful for bridging scaling gaps, especially for large scale decision-making and covering ...