Guess what is causing the subsidence…groundwater pumping of course.
http://news.asiaone./news/asian-opinions/stop-jakartas-sinking
Schneider Water System Electrical Controls
Steve Schneider, water well driller and philanthropist extraordinaire, now has his 3rd Edition of Water Supply Well Guidelines for Use in Developing Countries available in Chinese, English, French, and Spanish. And, the 2nd Edition is available in Swahili!
http://www.seidc.com/pages/Hydrophilanthropy_Well_Guidelines.html
RWSN Webinars 2015
Check out the Rural Water Supply Networks new series of webinars every Tuesday from October 6th to December 8th.
In French, Spanish and English!
“The World’s groundwater resources are of key importance to sustainable development. Making full benefit from the groundwater resources and controlling effectively the ever-present groundwater problems -such as overuse and pollution- are very demanding tasks”
Don’t you agree?
Check our their new website here: http://us8.campaign-archive2.com/?u=ca6732355e2c51a5b261888e5&id=c8d1f67d2c
Residents of the Las Palmas community, eight kilometers northwest of the town of El Sauce, Leon, are amazed because in some wells that were dry, following the seismic swarm in the area, water has emerged with a yellow color and smell sulfur.
Sudden water level increases and other changes in water flow, including dry wells that started to produce again, after a seismic swarm in northwest Nicaragua. Unfortunately the water doesn’t look potable (yellowish colour, sulfur smell) ….
http://www.laprensa.com.ni/2015/09/18/departamentales/1903909-reportan-agua-con-olor-a-azufre
The Syria Groundwater Story
Some data from the Aleppo region to tell the Syria groundwater story.
The authors of this paper (Aw-Hassan et al., 2014) point out that the groundwater crisis is not just in Syria…” Over-extraction of groundwater and aquifer depletion threatens many of the world’s most important food producing regions, including the North China Plain, the Indian Punjab, parts of Southeast Asia, large areas of MENA, and much of the western United States” (p. 204).
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169414002285
The role of groundwater (and climate change) in the “Trying to follow what is going on in Syria and why” comic
The UN-IGRAC has updated their Transboundary Aquifer Map
2015 Updated Transboundary Aquifer Map:
IS RESEARCH ON ‘REGIONAL GROUNDWATER FLOW’ STAGNANT OR STILL FLOWING?
Let your thought flow on this one!
One-third of our large groundwater basins are in distress?
“This means that significant segments of Earth’s population are consuming groundwater quickly without knowing when it might run out.”
http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/grace/study-third-of-big-groundwater-basins-in-distress