Hidden depths: why groundwater is our most important water source

February 20, 2018 Emma Kathryn White (University of Melbourne)

Vivid scenes of worried Cape Town residents clutching empty water vessels in long snaking queues are ricocheting around the globe. Everyone is asking, “How did this happen?” Or, more precisely, “Can it happen in my city?” The importance of […]

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Above and Below: Understanding River-Groundwater Exchanges

February 20, 2018 Philip Brunner (Université de Neuchâtel), Philippe Renard (Université de Neuchâtel), René Therrien (Université Laval), Craig T Simmons (Flinders University), Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

Contemporary hydrology is concerned with pressing problems that often involve the interactions between rivers and groundwater. A review article recently published in Reviews of Geophysics explored scientific advances in observing, quantifying, measuring, and predicting the characteristics and processes that occur at the […]

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