Water security is essential for the sustainability of healthy human populations, economic growth, and the stability of communities and nations. Approximately 30% of all freshwater on Earth exists as ...

The growing conflict over water for people and fish has brought new emphasis to an old standard for land development projects — how land use changes impact groundwater recharge and groundwater ...

Prior to the earthquake, Kumamoto City area groundwater had broad stable isotopic compositional features that included low elevation mountain springs, recharge area soil waters, and Shirakawa river ...

For more than a decade, a team of researchers and students have studied the dynamics of the Greenland Ice Sheet as it responds to a warming climate. But while much of their focus has been on the ...

Kumamoto City is blessed with rich greenery and abundant groundwater. The city, in central Kyushu, the largest southern island of Japan, supplies all of its 730,000 citizens with drinking water from ...

Nine years of groundwater monitoring data has documented the important influence that topographic relief and location in the groundwater flow system have on the hydrologic function of interdunal ...

Abnormal rises in groundwater levels after large earthquakes has been observed all over the world, but the cause has remained unknown due to a lack of comparative data before and after earthquakes.