Widespread aquifer depressurization after a century of intensive groundwater use in USA

A Hilton, S Jasechko - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Water supplies for household use and irrigated agriculture rely on groundwater wells. When
wells are drilled into a highly pressurized aquifer, groundwater may flow up the well and …

Machine learning algorithms for modeling groundwater level changes in agricultural regions of the US

S Sahoo, TA Russo, J Elliott… - Water Resources …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Climate, groundwater extraction, and surface water flows have complex nonlinear
relationships with groundwater level in agricultural regions. To better understand the relative …

Wetland conservation: challenges related to water law and farm policy

SL King, MK Laubhan, P Tashjian, J Vradenburg… - Wetlands, 2021 - Springer
Water is essential for wetland function and sustaining migratory networks for wetland wildlife
across broad landscapes. Groundwater declines and surface flow reductions that impact …

Comparison of groundwater storage changes from GRACE satellites with monitoring and modeling of major US aquifers

A Rateb, BR Scanlon, DR Pool, A Sun… - Water Resources …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
GRACE satellite data are widely used to estimate groundwater storage (GWS) changes in
aquifers globally; however, comparisons with GW monitoring and modeling data are limited …

Bayesian machine learning ensemble approach to quantify model uncertainty in predicting groundwater storage change

J Yin, J Medellín-Azuara, A Escriva-Bou… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Agricultural water demand, groundwater extraction, surface water delivery and climate have
complex nonlinear relationships with groundwater storage in agricultural regions. As an …

Modern groundwater reaches deeper depths in heavily pumped aquifer systems

M Thaw, M GebreEgziabher… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Deep groundwater is an important source of drinking water, and can be preferable to
shallower groundwaters where they are polluted by surface-borne contaminants. Surface …

Depletion and response of deep groundwater to climate-induced pum** variability

TA Russo, U Lall - Nature Geoscience, 2017 - nature.com
Groundwater constitutes a critical component of our water resources. Widespread
groundwater level declines have occurred in the USA over recent decades, including in …

Virtual groundwater transfers from overexploited aquifers in the United States

L Marston, M Konar, X Cai… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
The High Plains, Mississippi Embayment, and Central Valley aquifer systems within the
United States are currently being overexploited for irrigation water supplies. The …

Deeper well drilling an unsustainable stopgap to groundwater depletion

D Perrone, S Jasechko - Nature Sustainability, 2019 - nature.com
Groundwater depletion is causing wells to run dry, affecting food production and domestic
water access. Drilling deeper wells may stave off the drying up of wells—for those who can …

Groundwater level response in US principal aquifers to ENSO, NAO, PDO, and AMO

AJM Kuss, JJ Gurdak - Journal of Hydrology, 2014 - Elsevier
Groundwater will play an important role in society's adaptation to climate variability and
change. Therefore, it is particularly important to understand teleconnections in groundwater …