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Well, as you say, the higher you need to lift the water, the more energy needed which means that you need bigger pumps which translate into larger well bores and that’s not going into the fact that new wells can be expensive and the expense only increases the deeper you drill. The real kicker...

Short answer is yes. I know of at least of research group based out of the University of Calgary that has been studying basically alpine hydrogeology in the eastern Rocky Mountains (which is also having a bit of a snow drought and an unseasonably warm winter). In a nutshell, snow melt recharges...

Just to further elaborate on this point about arsenic in Bangladesh (and in India too) well water. Coal ash contamination is likely a thing there, but there are other sources a too. As the article mentions, arsenic can be naturally occurring. Arsenic's mobility in groundwater is redox sensitive...

Typically the hydraulic gradient is from land to the sea with fresh groundwater discharging into the ocean. But for salinity, you need to include density effects in where groundwater flows. Because seawater is more dense than freshwater, it sinks below fresh groundwater. The issue that...

Not to diminish the article and it's seriousness, but these concerns have always been there and have been an active area of research for a little while now. I've done a tiny bit of work looking at contamination of groundwater resources from saltwater intrusion in coastal settings, mostly report...

Before people praise Doug Ford too much, the guy is a politician first and foremost and has been doing some pretty shady things. First one that comes to mind involves land development. Land in southern Ontario is pretty expensive, partly because of land outside the cities are part of the Green...

There's a limit to how deep you would want to drill when targeting deeper saline aquifers. Eventually they get so salty the water is more like the brine byproducts of desalination. The water also has a bunch of nasty stuff in it like dissolved heavy metals and radioactivity of all things. The...

I've seen this argument come up every now and then when it comes to water availability and scarcity. On paper it makes sense, but when you think about it some more it brings a whole slew of difficult questions. Scarcity driven pricing on water largely means that when there isn't a lot of water...

I saw this break elsewhere yesterday and my general impression is that Trump is getting drunk with the power he has regained. He's threatening economic mutually assured destruction if he doesn't get his way. In thinking about it, it sounds like Putin's nuclear warhead bluster. But the...

I think the more pressing issue is the uncertainty AI will bring to publications in general. There's already a sizable population that distrusts the media and this will only make it worse. AI hallucinations are a very real thing. And when an AI hallucinates something and claims it...

Yeah, I had a similar experience during my undergrad with 3D modeling (for a Comp Sci course). We had to do our own matrix translations and operations before having some graphics libraries do the work for us. While I didn't do much with it afterwards, it did help me appreciate the utterly insane...

The whole "fail because you used a calculator" is likely because you are practicing the fundamentals of how calculators perform their function. When you are allowed to use a calculator, it is presumed that you know how to do basic math operations already. Or some of the more advanced stuff. In...

How long do you think it would take for Musk to get in trouble for having his 'autonomous' bots actually being farmed out to human operators? Edit: For clarity, after these are pushed to production and being billed as completely 'autonomous' much like how the present FSD is being labeled as...

This story reminded me of something that happened in Manitoba last year related to high grade quartz and it had its own set of environmental impacts. I think it illustrated the demand for this material. There's this sand aquifer in Manitoba that lots of people rely on east of Winnipeg. Water...

I couldn't find much about it, but there is a brief mention of the unit of measurement on the atmospheric river wiki page. To me it sounds like a mass flux measurement related to the size of the weather system in question. In the context of an atmospheric river, it would be the mass of water in...

One of the biggest problems that would need to be addressed is quantifying that recharge rate. We can measure how much water comes down as precipitation with decent accuracy. Figuring out how much precipitation actually reaches your target aquifer is another matter. Plants get in the way and...

This is an argument that I have seen thrown around and it supposes that anything north of the interior plains of North America is just agricultural land waiting to happen once the permafrost thaws. Now permafrost thaws is bad news (methane releases), but I can promise you that most of the...

Things are definitely going to get messier in the coming years and decades. And I do agree with the article in that even developed countries are at risk. Recently the city of Calgary in Alberta had a nasty feeder main break that crippled water supply even when there was abundant water. The...

In addition to what others have said, like satellites and so on, you wouldn't necessarily see where a new large igneous province form unless mining or oil and gas exploration is taking place where one could form. The same goes for geothermal exploration. Where the resources are are not...

I don't think it is clathrates. It seems the permafrost methane comes from water and heat being introduced to a formerly frozen soil and methanogenic microbes are starting to wake up and have a veritable feast. From my knowledge, clathrates are more associated with marine sediments. And I think...