About 60 percent of coastal aquifers are contaminated by seawater intrusion, a generalised phenomenon in 20 percent of cases. Experts have found viable solutions implying not so much investment, but ...

Asst. Prof. James Heiss of the Department of Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EEAS) is leading a team of researchers who are studying how powerful coastal storms affect the fresh water ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The groundwater in Southern California and ...

The sustainable management of coastal aquifers is an increasingly critical field of research as growing populations, climate change and excessive groundwater abstraction combine to heighten the risk ...

A study of 1,400 coastal aquifers in North America finds that most coastal aquifers are relatively unaffected by rising sea levels, but human use is draining many of them. Coastal aquifers are ...

Saline groundwater results from seawater intrusion into coastal aquifers, shifting the fresh-saline water interface upward and landward, and replaces fresh groundwater with saline groundwater. The RO ...

Submarine groundwater discharge is a process by which water exits coastal aquifers and enters the ocean. This can be terrestrial freshwater or salty seawater that intruded into the porous aquifer at ...

Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury Senior Lecturer Leanne Morgan and Joshu Mountjoy of National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) have produced a high quality map ...

Groundwater supplies 40% of the world’s irrigation water, yet aquifer levels are falling faster than they are being ...

If you dive deep enough off America’s northeast coast you’ll find something surprising under the Atlantic Ocean: freshwater. A gigantic aquifer of mostly freshwater, hugging the coastline from New ...

Salt water is continuing to creep into private wells and some deep aquifers on the Cape May peninsula, forcing some homeowners to consider other sources of drinking water, and prompting Cape May City ...