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A water tanker truck parked outside an apartment complex in Bengaluru, India
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Deploying Community Water Solutions with People, for People

by Indrani Pal, Celena Wasserstrom, Adriel Chang and Ganesh Shanbhag 14 July 20221 June 2023

Guiding principles and strategies for solving local water availability problems in India have emerged from collaborations involving water users, water experts, and water solutions providers.

A reservoir surrounded by trees with two people in a canoe
Posted inNews

The Domino Effect of Freshwater Suffocation

by Danielle Beurteaux 11 July 202227 October 2022

As lakes and reservoirs become anoxic, they can promote poor water quality downstream.

Floating water hyacinths with trapped plastics.
Posted inNews

Remote Sensing Tracks Down “Plastic Plants” in Rivers

by Clarissa Wright 28 June 2022

Researchers are using remote sensing to track floating mats of plastic trapped in water hyacinth plants.

Audrey Goeckner gathering sediment samples from a stormwater pond in Florida.
Posted inNews

Stormwater Ponds Are Carbon Sources, Not Sinks

by Robin Donovan 22 June 202222 June 2022

New research from Florida tracks carbon dioxide and methane emissions from human-created waterways.

Sand dunes flank a freshwater lake.
Posted inNews

Estimating Lake Evaporation Just Got Easier

by Issa Sikiti da Silva 9 February 202211 February 2022

A new method standardizes freshwater lake measurements and shows they are losing a fifth of their inflow to evaporation.

Scientists living in ice camps during an entire year in 1975 (top). Automated instruments attached to sea ice in 2006–2012 (bottom).
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Capturing How Fast the Arctic Ocean Is Gaining Fresh Water

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 8 December 20219 December 2021

A new analysis suggests that models do not accurately capture how fresh Arctic surface waters mix with deeper waters, contributing to underestimation of Arctic surface freshening.

Vance Farrant and his older brother, Nakoa Farrant, clear invasive plant species from the side of Kalou, a historic Kanaka Maoli freshwater fishpond in Waiale‘e, Hawai’i.
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Water Wisdom: The Indigenous Scientists Walking in Two Worlds

Jane Palmer, Science Writer by Jane Palmer 22 November 202120 December 2021

Meet the international researchers who draw on both academic training and cultural experience to help Indigenous communities protect water, restore ecosystems, and sustain traditional resources.

A packer installation near Ibra, Oman, in January 2019
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Shedding Light on Microbial Communities in Deep Aquifers

Kate Wheeling, freelance science writer by Kate Wheeling 20 October 202116 May 2022

Researchers use a packer system to study the microbial communities living in waters sampled from deep, uncontaminated peridotite aquifers.

Margaritifera laevis shells on the bottom of a river.
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Freshwater Mussel Shells May Retain Record of Alpine Snowpack

by Stacy Kish 4 October 202129 March 2023

A new study explores a possible proxy for seasonal freshwater input that could elucidate changes in alpine snowpack as the planet warms.

Methane streams arising from the seafloor at a cold seep site offshore of Virginia
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Does the Priming Effect Happen Underwater? It’s Complicated

by Morgan Rehnberg 1 September 202129 September 2021

A new meta-analysis finds evidence that adding fresh organic material can increase decomposition rates, but when and why that happens remain unclear.

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