Majority of groundwater stores resilient to climate change:
Fewer of the world's large aquifers are depleting than previously estimated, according to a new study by the University of Sussex and UCL.
[...] Previous global studies of changes in groundwater storage, estimated using data from the GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) satellite mission and global models, have concluded that intensifying human water withdrawals in the majority of the world's large aquifer systems are causing a sustained reduction in groundwater storage, depleting groundwater resources.
Yet this new study, published in Earth System Dynamics, reveals that depletion is not as widespread as reported, and that replenishment of groundwater storage depends upon extreme rainfall that is increasing under global climate change.
Aquifer depletion is occurring only in 5 localities.
(Score: 1) by redneckmother on Saturday August 29 2020, @05:28PM (1 child)
The winds in West Texas will disperse the salts far and wide. Believe it or not, there are some prime agricultural lands there, and the salts would have a major impact on agriculture.
Mas cerveza por favor.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday August 29 2020, @05:49PM
West Texas encompasses a pretty big area... I'm sure the locals would be pissed, but you could start by filling up the canyons around McKittrick / Guadalupe Mountains, that should cut down on the wind dispersal.
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