Groundwater Discovered Under Antarctic Ice
More Confirmation of Vast Freshwater Deposits Across the Planet Last week, scientists announced the first detection of vast amounts of groundwater beneath Antarctic ice. As reported in the journal Science on May 5th, scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography detected the groundwater in thick sediment buried under ice and snow. The amount of water from…
Read MoreSolving The Water Crisis – Let Our Shallow Aquifers Recharge
Why be concerned with recharging our shallow aquifers? Well, alarming headlines about drought and the global freshwater crisis are splashed across the media from Sacramento to Cape Town and Dubai. Just as alarming are the draconian “solutions” being mandated to reduce water usage or prevent economic growth. Let Our Shallow Aquifers Recharge There is one…
Read MoreGrowing Evidence of Abundant Underground Fresh Water Across Our Planet
On this World Water Day, 2022, most pundits will once again sound the alarm over shrinking fresh water sources. However, there is growing evidence that the earth contains enough fresh water to satisfy the needs of the world’s population for thousands of years. Indeed, the U.S. National Groundwater Association estimates there are 22.6 million cubic…
Read MoreDeep Seated Water Illustration Explained
Global water management strategies are missing a key component in their planning and water conservation models. This missing component results in overdrawn surface water supply sources, such as endangering rivers and depleting shallow groundwater resources. A century of innovation and scientific discovery indicates there may well be a set of pathways that can lead to…
Read MoreThe Other Downside of Drought – Insects
With 70% of the U.S. experiencing abnormally dry conditions and 55% at moderate or more severe drought levels, you’d think it can’t get much worse. Unfortunately, drought opens the door to other problems – like insects. According to entomologist Julie Peterson of the University of Nebraska, “When corn or soybean plants are stressed due to…
Read MoreDefining The Missing Piece In Freshwater Sources
When governments, municipalities or any other water strategy planners plot out their freshwater management stratagems, there are four main sources of freshwater that are usually considered. However, a fifth source should be included in these plans and might very well be the missing piece that solves the puzzle of how we provide fresh water for…
Read MoreNew Technology Can Save The Planet from The Water Crisis
There is no question much of the planet is facing a water crisis. As we’ve reported before, drought threatens the lives of over two billion people, and four billion people depend on increasingly contaminated shallow groundwater for drinking and food production. The World Resources Institute lists 44 countries as having high baseline water stress. Rather…
Read MoreWater Contamination Reaching Your Tap
The water pouring from your tap at home has a fair chance of being contaminated. That’s the stark reality of many municipal water systems in the U.S. Those of us who live in the United States may recall the shocking news from Flint, Michigan, regarding contamination from E. coli bacteria that sickened residents and caused…
Read MoreSolving the Global Water Crisis
The Drought Outlook Is Not Encouraging With the onset of winter, one would hope there might be some relief to the drought conditions in the northern hemisphere, particularly in the parched southwestern United States. Indeed, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting a cyclic La Nina for the US. This could mean…
Read MoreEarth’s Water – Fallen from Outer Space or Degassing from Inside the Planet?
This is certainly a big question. That is, did nearly all of Earth’s water arrive from outer space or has it always been present in the Earth’s mantle and released to the surface over time? We will not be answering it definitively here, of course, but knowledgeable scientists continue to debate the alternatives. It is…
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