Guess what is causing the subsidence…groundwater pumping of course.
http://news.asiaone./news/asian-opinions/stop-jakartas-sinking
Guess what is causing the subsidence…groundwater pumping of course.
http://news.asiaone./news/asian-opinions/stop-jakartas-sinking
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
Check out the Rural Water Supply Networks new series of webinars every Tuesday from October 6th to December 8th.
In French, Spanish and English!
Don’t you agree?
Check our their new website here: http://us8.campaign-archive2.com/?u=ca6732355e2c51a5b261888e5&id=c8d1f67d2c
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
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
2015 Updated Transboundary Aquifer Map:
Let your thought flow on this one!
“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