Farmers Help Grow Groundwater Plans

Over-allocation of surface water for growing food crops is shifting agriculture and other industry to use groundwater – which is much more difficult to measure and monitor...

Study Presents New Insights About the Depletion of the World's Groundwater Storages

Previous studies on groundwater storage came to the conclusion that large aquifer systems are constantly depleting as a result of persistent human induced water drainage. However, new research reports that the water storages have not subsided to the rate that these studies suggest....

Groundwater Cleanup Begins in Metro Detroit

The U.S. EPA and Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) announced plans to inject a chemical barrier into the groundwater at the former Electro-Plating Services building in the metro Detroit suburb of Madison Heights....

Princeton Researchers Join $1M NSF Effort to Model Nation's Groundwater

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Researchers from Princeton will help lead a $1 million project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that will use artificial intelligence to simulate the nation’s natural groundwater system in an effort to improve water management and help people better prepare for flooding and drought...

2020 By the Numbers: 995 Wastewater Samples Tested for COVID-19

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EGLE and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services piloted with local health departments across the state to sample wastewater at 306 different locations for the presence of the COVID-19 virus in human waste streams...