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In the Netherlands, certain grassland farms are permitted to use more manure from grazing animals on their land than the amount specified in the Nitrates Directive. A new report shows nitrate concentrations in groundwater have been decreasing for all soil types in these areas since 2021. This has been attributed... read more...
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Microplastics can be found everywhere, even in your drinking water. Are you afraid of possible effects of microplastics pollution on human health? What about their effects on the environment? Researchers from the PlasticUnderground Project developed a survey to understand the public risk perception on microplastic contamination. They are inviting people... read more...
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The over-exploitation of ground water by an expanding population and agricultural use has magnified the impact of climate breakdown which has led to chronic winter drought, heatwaves and erratic monsoons in western Nepal. Towns and cities desperate for water are drilling ever deeper for precious water, using up a diminishing... read more...
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Water in more than 70 percent of the country’s wells is not safe for consumption and does not meet sanitary standards, warn specialists of the National Agency for Public Health (ANSP). The results of monitoring the quality of drinking water from wells over the past few years show quite high... read more...
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In the second ‘groundwater, beauty and culture dialogue’, Makoto Taniguchi (RIHN) and Tom Gleeson (University of Victoria, Canada) ponder how groundwater sustainability could be enriched with Japanese culture. They discuss various Japanese words and concepts while pointing to how these might be interesting or insightful to hydrogeologists. This video was... read more...
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The EU Council has agreed its negotiating mandate on the directive which will amend the water framework directive, the groundwater directive and the directive on environmental quality standards. The proposal updates priority substances and environmental quality standards in surface water and groundwater. Find out more https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2024/06/19/surface-water-and-groundwater-council-agrees-negotiating-mandate-to-update-list-of-pollutants/ read more...
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Although most of Namaqualand, South Africa, receives very little rainfall, there are rare, high intensity rainfall events. When these occur, termite burrows on the mound surfaces serve as water flow paths that can harvest rain and channel water into the mound. This causes the salts that built up in the... read more...
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The balloting stage of the IAH 2024 Elections will open in early July 2024. Elected members make important contributions to IAH and the international groundwater community, and will represent the IAH membership for the next four years. As IAH members you have the opportunity to vote for the candidates who... read more...
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In the first ‘groundwater, beauty and culture dialogue’, Makoto Taniguchi (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature) and Tom Gleeson (University of Victoria, Canada) ask a strange, provocative question: can groundwater be beautiful? They discuss art, culture, meetings, history and kimonos! This video was recorded at Hōnen-in Temple in Kyoto, Japan... read more...
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Ongoing research by health organizations has linked the low-level occurrence of natural lithium in drinking water to positive human-health outcomes such as reduced suicide mortality and other mental-health benefits, in addition to potential negative outcomes such as autism and thyroid hormone levels. A new study estimates lithium concentrations in groundwater... read more...
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