How Climate Change Will Affect Western Groundwater

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https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/how-climate-change-will-affect-western-groundwater

[font face=Serif][font size=5]How Climate Change Will Affect Western Groundwater[/font]

[font size=4]Groundwater deficits are expected to worsen in four important aquifers, creating a precarious balance between usage and recharge.[/font]

By Mari N. Jensen, UA College of Science | February 17, 2016

[font size=3]By 2050, climate change will increase the groundwater deficit even more for four economically important aquifers in the Western U.S., reports a University of Arizona-led team of scientists.

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Groundwater already is being withdrawn from the aquifers of California’s Central Valley, the central and southern portions of the High Plains and Arizona’s San Pedro faster than the groundwater is being recharged.

Climate change will make the groundwater deficits worse in those aquifers, the researchers report.

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In contrast, Western aquifers at about the latitude of Boulder, Colorado, and farther north are likely to be recharged faster than people withdraw the water, the team reports. The northern aquifers the researchers studied are the northern High Plains, the Spokane Valley, the Williston Basin and the Columbia Plateau.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.12.027

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1. USGS is studying the Williston Basin aquifer

Looking for fracking effects.