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33.8 Million People in the United States Live on Sinking Land

by Grace van Deelen 8 May 20258 May 2025

The most populated cities in the country are slowly subsiding, posing risks to infrastructure and exacerbating flooding—and not just on the coasts.

The Los Angeles River passes under a bridge at sunset.
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Seismometers Provide Fuller Picture of Los Angeles Groundwater

by Grace van Deelen 19 March 202519 March 2025

A new method to evaluate deep aquifers shows even torrential rains haven’t fully replenished groundwater beneath Los Angeles.

A plume water spouts high into the air from a well drilled in arid-looking ground beside water trucks and drilling equipment emblazoned with “UN.”
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Deep Groundwater Might Be a Sustainable Solution to the Water Crisis

by Claudia Bertoni, Fridtjov Ruden, Elizabeth Quiroga Jordan and Helene Ruden 27 February 202524 April 2025

Scientists are finding fresh groundwater buried deep underground, but questions remain about the scale of these resources, how they’re resupplied, and whether they can be used sustainably.

Two people install a permeable reactive barrier next to open water.
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Reactive Barriers Could Keep Nitrate out of the Atlantic

by Alix Soliman 15 July 202415 July 2024

Microbes in mulch scrub nitrate from groundwater before it flows to the sea.

Monitoring equipment sits atop a well.
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Groundwater Levels Are Dropping Around the World

by Katherine Bourzac 14 February 202414 February 2024

Well data from around the world show declines driven by water use and climate change.

Foto de una casa que es más baja por un lado que por otro. La casa está cubierta de graffitis.
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La extracción de agua subterránea está causando el hundimiento de la CDMX

by Humberto Basilio 12 December 202314 December 2023

Investigadores aseguran que saber cuánta agua está siendo extraída es crucial para resolver la crisis de infraestructura y de abastecimiento de agua en la capital.

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Air Flow Dynamics in Wet Soils: Challenges and Knowledge Gaps

by Ilan Ben-Noah 6 July 20235 July 2023

Modeling air flow in wet porous media relies on quantifying the combined role of fluid and media properties and flow dynamics on the microscale displacement mechanisms and macroscale unstable flow.

Photo of a house that is lower on one side than another. The house is covered in graffiti.
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Groundwater Pumping Is Causing Mexico City to Sink

by Humberto Basilio 5 May 202312 December 2023

Researchers say knowing how much water is being extracted is crucial for addressing infrastructure and water supply crises in the capital.

Diagrams showing the two effects of water storage change can be sensed by GPS.
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GPS Observations Sense Groundwater Change in Australia

by Annette Eicker 20 April 202319 April 2023

By exploiting the fact that changes in groundwater cause deformations of the Earth’s surface, GPS receivers are used to detect groundwater changes related to extreme events and to seasonal oscillations.

An illustrated scientific diagram shows how groundwater interacts with the rest of the water cycle.
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El agua subterránea se repone mucho más rápido de lo que pensaban los científicos

Rachel Fritts, Science Writer by Rachel Fritts 30 January 202330 January 2023

Un nuevo modelo basado en el clima indica que los científicos podrían haber subestimado la importancia del agua subterránea para mantener los ríos y la vida vegetal.

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