News
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A new analysis of precipitation and groundwater levels in Wisconsin has shown that it’s best to compare last month’s rainfall to the average over the previous five years. Consideration of very long term averages and aquifer type were found to be not so important. Find out more https://news.wisc.edu/precipitation-and-groundwater-levels-its-a-long-term-relationship/ read more...
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The approval for the 96m litre a year bottled water extraction operation at Cherrabah – in a severely drought-hit area where locals are on water rations and communities at imminent risk of running dry – has raised significant questions about the oversight and regulation of critical water resources in Queensland.... read more...
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NEW DELHI: Nearly 1,100 scientists, practitioners and experts in groundwater and related fields from 92 countries have called on the governments and nongovernmental agencies to “act now” to ensure global groundwater sustainability. Find out more https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/science/over-1000-experts-call-for-global-action-on-depleting-groundwater/articleshow/72964806.cms read more...
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The Hydrogeology Challenge was created as a Science Olympiad event, but has wider applicability as a learning tool that introduces students to basic groundwater modeling concepts. Find out more https://www.groundwater.org/kids/classroom/hydro.html read more...
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The next IAH Council election will take place in 2020 and all members who have paid their IAH membership fees can stand for election and of course are entitled to vote. At their meeting in September, IAH Council appointed the Executive Manager, Ian Davey, as the Returning Officer, who will... read more...
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The December edition of “News and Information” is now available to download. It features a water stewardship report and the usual mix of resources, contributions, member matters, meeting reports, initiatives and calls… Find out more Read our December News and Information magazine Copy and advertising information read more...
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Now is the best time to renew membership, or join IAH if you haven’t already done so. Our aim is to be the leading world-wide professional association for the science and practice of hydrogeology and to ‘further the understanding, wise use and protection of groundwater resources throughout the world’. Your... read more...
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Three Australians found themselves in a battle for survival, stranded in a remote landscape with little food and water when their truck became bogged down in a riverbed. Twelve days later, police said they had found one of the three people, who had survived in the 38-degree-plus heat by boiling... read more...
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A new study shows how groundwater is crucial for understanding global sea level change, chemical weathering and landscape evolution. Changes in groundwater millions of years ago created alternating layers of vivid yellow and brown in the mineral sphalerite, which align with movements in Earth’s orbit that impacted climate in the... read more...
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A statement calling for action to ensure groundwater benefits society now and into the future was drafted at the recent Chapman conference in Valencia, Spain. It urges international and national governmental and non-governmental agencies, development organizations, corporations, decision-makers and scientists to support global groundwater sustainability. The global group of scientists... read more...
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