At present, the Middle East and North African region contains 7% of the world’s population but only has access to 1.5% of its renewable freshwater supply through rainfall.
Articles on Aquifers
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Millions of livelihoods depend on the Indus Basin aquifer.
There’s enough water under the ground to form a lake 100m deep over the earth.
The digging of wells in Africa has often been thought of as the solution to helping rural women walking to get water, but they may cause more harm than good.
Built-up urban environments transform the resource of rainwater into wasted runoff. Low Impact Development mimics nature to help get stormwater into the natural water system.
The Queensland government wants companies to use waste water from coal seam gas extraction for useful purposes such as recharging aquifers. New CSIRO research shows that, with careful monitoring, it can be done.
In a recent article on The Conversation, Queensland coal seam gas (CSG) researchers argued that the industry is progressing faster than the science, leading to concerns over fugitive emissions and impacts…
On Wednesday, Queensland’s parliament passed water reform legislation that will make it easier to take and use water, particularly for large mining and agriculture projects. The state government also recently…
A study of 1,400 coastal aquifers in North America finds that most coastal aquifers are relatively unaffected by rising sea…
There are many good reasons why the general public, and in particular farmers, are concerned about coal seam gas (CSG) extraction. There are major gaps in our knowledge about the future impacts of CSG…
A new centrifuge is being used to preview the long-term effects of activities such as coal seam gas mining on groundwater…
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Senior lecturer, Nelson Mandela University
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Associate Professor of Water Resources, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Visiting Professor, King's College London
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Research scientist, Australian National University
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W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History, Pomona College
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Associate Professor, Associate Chair of Graduate Studies for Environmental Engineering, and Canada Research Chair in Stormwater and Low Impact Development (Tier II), Carleton University
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Doctoral Researcher, Department for International Development, University of Sussex
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Adjunct Professor, The University of Western Australia
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Professor, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW
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Honorary Fellow, Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Government, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
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Research Scientist: Land and Water, CSIRO