Our collaborators have a life outside the Cluster.

Here's how #Hydrology researcher James Shanley, based at the United States Geological Survey in Vermont, worked with a variety of other experts to better understand a #fractured #aquifer and what it could mean for a broader understanding of what could possibly contaminate these important water sources.

#CriticalZone #EnvironmentalScience #geology

https://criticalzone.org/news-events/cluster-collaborators-contribute-to-age-dating-research

#StopSprawl: Here in the #booming Hill Country southwest of Austin, Flatten said, the Trinity #Aquifer is at its lowest level on record. Across the region, iconic natural #springs are dwindling or drying up, victims of #extremeheat, #persistentdrought and ever-growing demand for #water.

#CompactCommunities #WalkableCities #15MinuteNeighborhoods

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15082023/central-texas-dry-wells-water-shortage/

If you live in the southwest USA, get out your rain barrels and check on your catchment basins - you’re about to get a lot of unseasonal rain that if stored well - can help in the drier times. Let’s hope folks got practice in the past winter letting water sit so it can filter down to the aquifers too! Flood those orchards!

#rain #draught #southwest #CA #CO #UT #AZ #NM #NV #LakeMead #LakePowell #Shasta #aquifer #hurricaine #HurricaineHilary

As Armenian Fish Farming Expands, a Pristine #Aquifer Is Drying Up. #water #groundwater #climatechange #watermanagement https://e360.yale.edu/features/armenia-fish-farms-groundwater-agriculture

As Armenian Fish Farming Expands, a Pristine #Aquifer Is Drying Up. #water #groundwater #climatechange #watermanagement https://e360.yale.edu/features/armenia-fish-farms-groundwater-agriculture

#Triballeaders had been pressing Biden administration officials with a unified message: Don’t let #uranium #mining regain its foothold around the #GrandCanyon… uranium mining during the #ColdWar devastated the #Navajo people… the Havasupai people fear it will #poison the #aquifer… “our #home will no longer be #livable, our water will no longer be there,” Chavez said.

#GrandCanyonNationalMonument

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-08-10/grand-canyon-monument-won-t-stop-hunt-for-more-us-uranium

#Indigenous Peoples Under Attack by Militarized Forces: #NativeHawaiians want the US military out

By Brenda Norrell, #CensoredNews
July 19, 2023

"GENEVA -- Native #Hawaiians want the US military off their lands, and training exercises in the #Pacific shut down. An #aquifer has been poisoned in #Hawaii, and unexploded ordinances left behind are endangering their lives.
Appealing to the United Nations in Geneva, Indigenous in Guam also want the US military off their lands. The Pacific Indigenous Women's Network urged the United Nations General Assembly to join the effort for the removal of the US military from #Guam.

"#Indigenous are offering testimony today, and all week, before the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, of the UN #HumanRights Council.

"Around the world, #IndigenousPeoples are under attack by military forces. In #Colombia there are land mines.

"In Peru, the military is attacking, torturing, and killing, those who are isolated and have marched against the current government. More than 40 people, including Indigenous children, have died since protests began in #Peru in December.

"#Indigenous in #Guatemala echoed those descriptions of militarized force.

"Throughout the #Amazon, military forces are killing the people, and seizing the land under the guise of the war on drugs. Indigenous lands are being stolen for illegal #logging and #mining."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/indigenous-peoples-under-attack-by.html

#IndigenousNews #WaterIsLife #WaterProtectors

Water for ceremonial and #subsistence #gardens was also denied. The court publicly listed nearly 100 #sacredsprings with limits on how much water the tribe was entitled to use for #religious #ceremonies.

In total, the tribe had requested at least 96,074 acre-feet a year of water, and the Arizona #watermaster recommended awarding just 28,988 acre-feet, all of it from the same #depleted, #contaminated #aquifer and seasonal streams the Hopi already use. After four decades, they ended up in the same precarious position they’d started.

#ClimateChange will increase impacts of #volcanic eruptions

June 28, 2023, Portland State University

"Volcanic disasters have been studied since Pompeii was buried in 79 A.D., leading the public to believe that scientists already know why, where, when and how long volcanoes will erupt. But a volcanologist said these fundamental questions remain a mystery."

However, we do know that, "#SeaLevel rise, #GlacialMelting, #aquifer depletion, and #mountain #erosion can all affect the likelihood and frequency of volcanic eruptions."

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #Volcanoes

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/06/230628131038.htm

by #JaymeLozanoCarver in @texastribune:

"On the heels of Texas’ worst drought in a decade, a report from the High Plains Underground Water Conservation District shows water levels in the Ogallala Aquifer, also known as the High Plains Aquifer, have dropped consistently in the region over the last five years. More than 1,300 wells were measured earlier this year, including ones from the smaller Edwards-Trinity Aquifer, all of which show varying degrees of decline. The biggest decrease was in Parmer County, which sits on the New Mexico border in between Lubbock and Amarillo, where there was a decline of 1.30 feet in the water levels."

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/20/texas-ogallala-aquifer-farming-climate-change/

#Texas #Ogallala #aquifer #water #agriculture #farming #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #climate #environment

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

Associated Press isn't generally known for hyperbole:

"Earth is 'really quite sick now' and in danger zone in nearly all ecological ways, study says"

Article: https://apnews.com/article/earth-environment-climate-change-nature-sick-2dded06915af4645253f5c29abff4794

Study (via Nature): https://rdcu.be/ddr8d

[Rockström, J., Gupta, J., Qin, D. et al. Safe and just Earth system boundaries. Nature (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06083-8]

#ecology #ClimateChange #Biodiversity #biosphere #ecosystems #water #aquifer #aerosols #pollution #StateOfTheWorld #Nature
#OpenAccess

@arstechnica Horizontally or can it connect vertically? 😉 #Aquifer

La indústria porcina contamina l'aigua de la #Garrotxa #OlotMeats #Noel #Olot #Nitrats #Aqüífer #Aigua #ACA
https://www.naciodigital.cat/garrotxa/noticia/27842/escorxador-olot-impacte-principal-aquifer-garrotxa

I have to admit, I didn't know UTube had grown up because books and shit. But I'm impressed. I can now go and learn about shit I forgot with the added bonus of fresh data of shit I never did.

#Hydrology
#Aquifer

Short: Cali rules sill stand
1. 3 days between showers
2. mellow yellow, down brown
3. Don't be rude, leave some for others

Long: thats what the vid is for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fFXJ3G49pY

The Ghost Of Tulare Lake Returns, Flooding California’s Central Valley
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https://grist.org/extreme-weather/tulare-lake-flooding-california-central-valley-subsidence-agriculture/ <-- shared article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #TulareLake #California #Tulare #flood #flooding #subsidence #groundwater #pumping #aquifer #mining #elevation #remotesensing #agriculture #framing #croplands #runoff #water #hydrology #rainfall #precipitation #landsubsidence #groundsubsidence

'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/

An #indigenous community, the Pima of #Arizona, gets their #water rights back.

"In one place, where a large #aquifer has been refilled, the #Gila has surged back to life. “We were shocked,” DeJong says. “Within a year all of the native vegetation came back. Now we have 200 or 300 acres. Eight different braids of the river have come back, wildlife have come back, birds have come back. It’s been incredible.”"

#ColoradoRiver
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/native-american-tribe-pima-indians-taking-back-water-180981542/

"Flood-MAR projects can provide broad benefits for Californians and the ecosystems of the state, including:

-#Water supply reliability
-#Flood risk reduction
-#Drought Preparedness
-#Aquifer Replenishment
-Ecosystem Enhancement
-Subsidence Mitigation
-Water Quality Improvement
-Working Landscape
Preservation and #Stewardship
-#Climate Change Adaptation
-Recreation and Aesthetics" https://water.ca.gov/programs/all-programs/flood-mar

View from my deck of scanning for aquifers in the #Wairarapa

#NZ #Aotearoa #Aquifer #Science