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Fresh Water Resources

September 15, 2017

Visualizing California’s drought

Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

A new web portal puts four years of California drought data into an interactive format, showing where regions met or missed water conservation goals. The idea is to motivate awareness and conservation.

Climate Change, Fresh Water Resources
satellite image of Wadi Rum desert in Jordan
August 30, 2017

Jordan faces more frequent long and severe droughts

Woods Institute for the Environment


A new analysis of regional drought and land-use changes in Syria suggests water conditions in downstream Jordan could get significantly worse.
 

Climate Change, Fresh Water Resources
Purified Water
September 2, 2015

Arsenic attaches to water that's 'too pure'

<p>Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences</p>

Stanford Earth scientist Scott Fendorf helped discover how trace amounts of arsenic were moving from sediments into groundwater aquifers in Southern California.

Evolution of Earth and Life, Fresh Water Resources
InSAR image seen through a water drop
June 9, 2015

"Seeing" Water Underground

Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences

New imaging tools developed by Stanford Earth scientists could soon inform more proactive strategies for groundwater management.

Fresh Water Resources
May 6, 2015
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Stanford News

A Stanford committee that included Chris Field and Pam Matson recommends that the university develop and evaluate two alternative ways to achieve fish passage at Searsville Dam.

Fresh Water Resources
shasta lake
March 2, 2015

Warming temperatures implicated in recent California droughts

<p>Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences</p>

In California, dry years coupled with warm conditions are more likely to lead to severe drought than dry, cool years, and the probability of warm and dry conditions coinciding is likely to increase under anthropogenic climate change. 

Climate Change, Fresh Water Resources
Beach in Monterey Bay
December 6, 2014

Freshwater challenge

<p>Stanford School Of Earth Sciences</p>

Earlier this fall, a team led by Rosemary Knight performed an ambitious experiment to determine the extent of ocean saltwater intrusion into freshwater aquifers in the Monterey Bay region.

Fresh Water Resources
Satellite using radar technology
November 10, 2014

Sensory Earth - Seeing Groundwater From Space

<p>Stanford School Of Earth Sciences</p>

Geophysicists Jessica Reeves, Rosemary Knight, and Howard Zebker use satellite radar technology to view water buried hundreds of feet underground from hundreds of miles above, with guest appearances by Arthur C. Clarke and Cruella de Vil.

Fresh Water Resources
Rosemary Knight speaking with KSBW reporter
October 13, 2014
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Water in the West

This past Wednesday was a busy day for Rosemary Knight, whose team is wrapping up a two-week long project to use geophysical tools to map saltwater intrusion into aquifers along the Monterey Coast.

Fresh Water Resources
Crop irrigation
June 18, 2014

Breakthrough provides picture of underground water

<p>Stanford School Of Earth Sciences</p>

Stanford Earth scientists prove that satellite-collected data can accurately measure aquifer levels, a finding with potentially huge implications for management of precious global water sources.

Fresh Water Resources
Irrigation circles
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Stanford Report

Much of the agriculture in the American West depends on underground water systems that need to be carefully moni

Fresh Water Resources

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