Compare and contrast: Twist of groundwater contaminants

EurekAlert!

In recent years, the world has been experiencing floods and droughts as extreme rainfall events have become more frequent due to climate change. For this reason, securing stable water resources throughout the year has become a national responsibility called ‘water security’, and ‘Aquifer Storage Recovery (ASR)’, which stores water in the form of groundwater in the ground when water resources are available and withdraws it when needed, is attracting attention as an effective water resource management technique. Click here to continue reading

Compare and contrast: Decline in the stability of water yield in the watersheds

EurekAlert!

treme climatic events such as droughts, heatwaves, and cold spells not only modify hydro-meteorological conditions but also alter the underlying characteristics (e.g., wildfires due to droughts changing the vegetation cover). Intense human activities, such as river channel modifications, afforestation, deforestation, industrialization, and urbanization, further amplify the variability of watershed system components. These changes directly or indirectly impact the hydrological processes of the watershed system. Eur. Click here to continue reading

Compare and contrast: What if the heavy rain would have fallen 50 kilometers away?

EurekAlert!

Floods affect more people worldwide than any other natural hazard, causing enormous damage that is expected to increase in a warming world. However, people and decision-makers in vulnerable regions are often unwilling to prepare for exceptionally severe events because they are difficult to imagine and beyond their experience. Click here to continue reading

Costs to clean up Teck’s B.C. coal mines are billions higher than previously thought: report

The Narwhal

The cost to clean up British Columbia’s largest mining complex is billions of dollars higher than government and industry estimates, according to a new report. It estimates it will cost $6.4 billion to remove just selenium from water affected by Teck’s Elk Valley coal mines. Click here to continue reading

Compare and contrast: Euroviews. Are water cycles the missing piece of the climate crisis puzzle?

EuroNews Green

Climate models are based largely on extrapolating fossil fuel emissions. But is a missing critical factor linked to plants and water making things worse? Eurof Uppington opinion piece. Click here to continue reading

Compare and contrast: Coffee grounds might be the answer to agricultural contamination: Here’s how

EuroNews Green

Scientists from Brazil’s Federal Technological University of Paraná found that leftover coffee can absorb bentazone, a herbicide frequently used in agriculture. The European Environment Agency has highlighted dangerous levels of bentazone in surface water, exceeding levels set in the Water Framework Directive and putting European Green Deal targets for pesticide use in jeopardy. Click here to continue reading

Compare and contrast: Bengaluru: Water crisis shakes India’s Silicon Valley

BBC News

In India’s Bengaluru city (formerly Bangalore), thousands of people have been chasing tankers, taking fewer showers and sometimes missing work to store enough water to get through the day. “It is often said that traffic is the biggest problem in Bengaluru but actually water is the larger issue,” says civic activist Srinivas Alavilli. Click here to continue reading

Compare and contrast: California zombie lake turned farmland to water. A year later, is it gone for good?

The Guardian

For a time last year, it was difficult to drive through a large swath of central California without running into the new shoreline of a long dormant lake. The scene was astounding. Tulare Lake was once the largest freshwater body west of the Mississippi before it was drained for agriculture in the 19th century. While it has re-emerged during other periods of wet weather, the lake hadn’t been seen anywhere near this scale in 40 years. Click here to continue reading

Halifax senior stuck with $45K bill for new sewer, water lines before she can sell her duplex

CBC

She said she planned to rely on money from the sale to pay her rent and bills, but Halifax Water requires new sewer and water lines to be installed before the duplex can be subdivided. Click here to continue reading

Alberta’s North Saskatchewan earns heritage river status

CBC

The governments of Canada and Alberta have declared that the entire portion of the North Saskatchewan River flowing through Alberta is now recognized as a Canadian Heritage River. A 49-kilometre stretch of the river, coursing through Banff National Park, already holds designation under the Canadian Heritage Rivers system. Click here to continue reading