HB2758 would allow a New York investment fund to drain 26 billion gallons of groundwater from La Paz County aquifers, eliminating the only state law protecting groundwater for rural communities. La Paz County supervisors are asking for more regulation, not less. The bill passed the House and awaits a Senate floor vote.

Contact your state senator now.

Details: https://weekly.cebv.us/2026-05-18/

Please boost.
#Arizona #AZWater #Groundwater #WaterRights #LaPazCounty

Thanks to the team at Wombeyan Caves for another successful groundwater research fieldtrip.

Cave drip loggers were downloaded for the last 7 months. Drip water and groundwater samples wwre collected for tracer analysis. The drip logger sites from the 2000s and the research of Janece McDonald were inspected. A Syp water sampler was installed, maybe it will work. And impromptu sci-comm occurred with cave tours groups.

The loggers recorded only one recharge event here since our last visit in September with @michcampbell. It was pretty dry.

#caves #groundwater #research #fieldwork #academia

Where in Europe is tap water the most and least safe?

Water purity varies across Europe, with Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and the Czech Republic having some of the most polluted groundwater on the continent.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260508-where-in-europe-is-tap-water-the-most-and-least-safe?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Water #Europe #DrinkingWater #Groundwater #Environment

AI hallucination in a SPRINGER publication A Global Perspectives on Contaminants in Groundwater:

The "Springer" Glitch List

"Pochemical" Activities: It is a classic AI spelling mutation, likely a botched attempt at "petrochemical" or "geochemical."

The Double Trouble: "Industrial Pollution" appears twice at the top because the AI model likely "lost the thread" of the list and defaulted to its most confident training weights.

#books
#AI
#Springer
#groundwater
#contamination
#water

Does anyone have suggestions for a (lake) water level monitoring system? Ideally it would be nice to have one that can do readings and record it (data downloadable by bluetooth or something?) manual stick-in-lake method is somewhat feasible, but I would be interested in more consistency. Problem is, no grants for this, so needs to be quite affordable.
@Andbaker maybe you would have ideas?

#water #groundwater #science #data #lake #pond #hydrology #river #climate

Drinking water near coasts is under threat worldwide: A recent study shows how the salinization of groundwater due to over-abstraction and rising sea levels is becoming a global problem 👉 https://press.uni-mainz.de/drinking-water-near-coasts-is-under-threat-worldwide/

#DrinkingWater #groundwater #water #seawater

A More Troubling Picture of Sea Level Rise Is Coming into View

Scientists have uncovered a “blind spot” in the research on rising seas, revealing that tens of millions of people thought safe from coastal flooding are at risk of inundation. Across much of the world, sea levels are higher than previously assumed and land is sinking faster.

By Fred Pearce • April 9, 2026

Excerpt: "The other new study focused on the world’s #RiverDeltas. It has long been known that many #deltas are sinking under the influence of #Groundwater pumping. But as Robert Nicholls, climate adaptation researcher at the University of East Anglia, notes, 'There have been lots of different estimates.' Data were inconsistent and based on crude, delta-wide estimates. 'Now at last we have a consistent data set, with high spatial resolution.'

"That data comes from Leonard Ohenhen, an earth system scientist at the University of California, Irvine, who used satellite-mounted radar to produce 3D maps of subsidence on 40 of the world’s biggest and most populous river deltas. He has found that subsidence afflicts more than half those deltas. Most startlingly, in 18 cases subsidence rates exceed those of #RisingTides — hence, more than doubling the effective yearly rise in local sea levels, and in some cases multiplying it tenfold.

"This again puts tens of millions of people once thought safe from rising tides this century in imminent harm’s way, including those living on the deltas of the #Nile in #Egypt, the #Mekong in #Vietnam, the #Mahanadi in #India, and the #YellowRiver in #China. If the current rate of subsidence persists, these areas will be flooded much sooner than thought.

"Researchers say many deltas and other low-lying coastal areas not included in the two studies are at greater risk than believed and urgently require detailed investigation of both actual sea levels and the rate of land subsidence."

Read more:
https://e360.yale.edu/features/sea-level-rise-land-subsidence

#SeaLevelRise #Subsidience #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #SeaLevels #RiverDeltas #GroundwaterExtraction #BigWater