News
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Groundwater is the world’s largest unfrozen freshwater reserve. It provides drinking water for half the world’s population but we’re using it far faster than it can naturally replenish. That’s bad news for the thousands of species living down there, including the cavefish, blind eels, blind beetles and translucent crustaceans that... read more...
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⯆ View the IAH-member articles published in Hydrogeology Journal in 2023 ⯆ As the year draws to a close, the Hydrogeology Journal (HJ) team reflects on the ~150 articles that have successfully negotiated the peer-review process and been published in the 2023 issues. We focus on the technical content,... read more...
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Fresh water that trickled down into Earth’s crust 6 million years ago became trapped thousands of feet beneath the Hyblaean Mountains in Sicily, forming an aquifer that has not budged since. Researchers hope the fresh water can be pumped up to alleviate water scarcity in Sicily and that the discovery will... read more...
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“Acque Sotterranee – Italian Journal of Groundwater” is calling for papers for the forthcoming Special Issue “Groundwater in the Cities of Europe”. The aim of this special issue is to present a sample of the groundwater knowledge about the urbanised sectors across the European continent. Your contributions are welcome on... read more...
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UNECE has opened a public consultation on the draft supplemental specifications for groundwater resources for the United Nations Framework Classification for Resources (UNFC), which aim to provide a common and consistent framework for assessing, classifying and reporting groundwater resources. The public consultation will run until 31 December 2023 and is open... read more...
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About half the groundwater wells across New Zealand monitored long-term are contaminated with E. coli. The agency Land, Air, Water Aotearoa (LAWA) said that E. coli levels, and those of nitrates, exceeded drinking water standards at a minority of wells. The report drew on data and information from about 1000 wells,... read more...
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Hydrogeology Journal (HJ) publishes articles about prominent men and women in the field of hydrogeology, in a type of article called ‘Profile of eminent hydrogeologist’. The subject of such an article has essentially completed their active participation due to retirement, or they are deceased. The article focuses on their achievements... read more...
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In an age when sustainable water sources are paramount, the IAEA has unveiled an ambitious strategy to delve deeper into groundwater research. The Agency’s new coordinated research project on “Modelling and isotope-based age for assessment of fossil GW resources” focuses on tightening the integration of environmental tracer data with numerical... read more...
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The IAH was well represented in the recent UN ECE event on conjunctive management of water resources. read more...
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At this year’s IAH World Groundwater Congress in Cape Town, we took a further step towards setting up an ‘Education and Outreach Working Group’. The WG once fully in place will be able to set out a strategy for delivering more support to members, taking account of different needs from... read more...
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