South Africa is moving to regulate groundwater more tightly as demand and climate pressures grow, but the draft rules still fall short in important ways.
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Kenya faces extreme weather crises. Humanitarian aid must be part of the solution.
There’s a lot of hot rock in the way, and sooner or later your hole would collapse.
Groundwater sustains life, from farming to wild animals. But we don’t fully know how quickly it recharges.
Drought-driven humanitarian emergencies can be prevented if groundwater is reliably made available at strategic locations.
Groundwater is out of sight, but it shouldn’t be out of mind. As cities struggle to cope with drought, we should remember that our largest stocks of water are hidden deep underground.
We know the tides affect the oceans, but it also affects groundwater. If we can understand how, then we can better protect this precious resource.
Can enormous heat deep in the earth be harnessed to provide energy for us on the surface? A promising report from a geothermal borehole project that accidentally struck magma – the same fiery, molten rock…
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