DuPont to reclean the Acid Brook in Pompton Lakes - NorthJersey.com
28 May 2012, 12:01 am
Soil and water tests require that portions of the Acid Brook be remediated again. DuPont polluted the soil and groundwater with lead, mercury, chlorinated solvents and other substances when it operated a munitions factory in Pompton Lakes from 1902 to 1994.

Water Shortage Looms Over India’s Farmlands - Wall Street Journal
27 May 2012, 11:26 pm
“In your most productive states, either your surface irrigation potential has already been met, or your groundwater potential is being used in an unsustainable manner,” said Arunabha Ghosh, chief executive officer of the Council on ...

groundwater contamination Two groups, two opinions on fracking - Vindy.com
27 May 2012, 11:18 pm
An Ohio-based group is asking for additional study of the potential for fracking to contaminate groundwater. The Environmental Protection Agency is planning a large-scale water study involving potential contamination risks from fracking.

Suncor spill clean-up at Sand Creek near Denver is months, years away - Denver Post
27 May 2012, 2:00 pm
And the source of the leak — a pipe within the refinery — is fixed. But one health department official says a "mass of contamination" continues to dissolve into the groundwater, and isolated pockets of pollution — much of it underground — are ...

Bengal nod to extract groundwater divides experts - New Kerala
26 May 2012, 2:05 am
One section alleges that this will destroy ecological balance -- by depleting groundwater, putting arsenic and fluoride into crops and leading to subsidence if an earthquake occurs. Others say the move will bring about a second green revolution in the ...

LCRA looking for 10,000 acre-feet of Bastrop County groundwater - Austin American-Statesman
24 May 2012, 6:18 am
In an effort to boost its water supplies, the Lower Colorado River Authority will ask to use about 10,000 acre-feet of groundwater in Bastrop County, part of a 14-county area where future pumping is already under dispute. The LCRA's board of directors ...

Pumping groundwater raises sea level - Science News
21 May 2012, 3:26 pm
For many crops around the world, farmers must supplement rainfall with irrigation — and much of this added water comes from underground reservoirs. Globally, extraction rates now greatly exceed that of groundwater recharge, and have begun raising sea ...

Damned if you don’t (dam): groundwater use outpacing dam building - Ars Technica
17 May 2012, 8:57 am
Last year, we had covered a study on the non-trivial contribution of groundwater depletion to sea level rise. It concluded that humans have pumped enough water from underground sources to account for up to 13 percent of the rise in ocean levels that ...

Computer Models to Help groundwater Management in the Klamath Basin - U.S. Geological Survey
16 May 2012, 11:57 am
PORTLAND, Ore.­– The U.S. Geological Survey has developed models to help water managers identify strategies to use groundwater for meeting competing water demands in the semi-arid upper Klamath Basin. The models, which simulate the effects of pumping ...

Increased groundwater pumping stirs concern - Las Cruces Sun-News
10 May 2012, 8:25 pm
LAS CRUCES — Intensive groundwater pumping from aquifers beneath Doña Ana County has garnered wary attention from state water officials and the city of Las Cruces, which taps into the same water supply. Crop irrigation comprises the bulk of ...