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Water links

Fountain at Volvic Visitor Centre. Photo: Roger Suthren

This page of links was originally compiled as a source of additional information and interest on the 2nd year Water module in the Geoscience programmes at the University of Derby, and more information will be added from time to time.

Water and Energy

Online books

• US Geological Survey (USGS): Groundwater (pdf booklet)
• USGS: Groundwater and the Rural Homeowner (pdf booklet)
• Basic groundwater hydrology (USGS report, pdf)

Organizations

• United Nations World Water Day - 22 March, every year
• Water Aid

Bottled water

• Bottled water from the British Isles (British Geological Survey - BGS)
• Buxton Water
• Volvic water

Drought, and Irrigation projects in dry regions

• Long term drought in western USA (NASA Earth Observatory)
• Groundwater drought in the UK (BGS)
• Drought in California (BBC News)
• Washington State University - Drought Management in Vineyards
• Impacts of Water Resource Development on Native American Lands
• Grand Coulee Dam - Columbia Basin Irrigation Project - Ice Age Floods
• Centre-pivot irrigation (NASA Earth Observatory)
• Agriculture on an alluvial fan, Afghanistan (NASA Earth Observatory)
• Desert crops in Saudi Arabia (NASA Earth Observatory)
• Central Iran (NASA Earth Observatory)
• Tracking water for the Navajo Nation (NASA Earth Observatory)

Groundwater

• Groundwater science (BGS)
• Groundwater in depth (UK Groundwater Forum)
• Water resources & groundwater (BGS)
• British Hydrogeology - a Brief History (UK Groundwater Forum)
• Is the water in my tap groundwater? (UK Groundwater Forum)
• Ground Water and Surface Water: A Single Resource (USGS)
• Groundwater and climate resilience
• The unusual habitat of petrifying springs (BGS blog)
• Groundwater resources and climate change (BGS)
• Groundwater and a changing energy sector (BGS)
• Sustainable groundwater management (UK Groundwater Forum)
• Global groundwater basins in distress (NASA Earth Observatory)
• Tapping into Africa's groundwater potential
• Groundwater and Earthquakes (USGS) podcast (4 minutes)

Case studies

• New groundwater maps reveal interesting patterns about Africa’s water security (BGS, 2021)
• The Chalk aquifer of the North Downs (BGS research report - pdf)
• Principal karst aquifers of the United States (USGS)
• Urban groundwater quality in sub-Saharan Africa

Water hazards - groundwater quality

• Threats to and from our groundwater resources (UK Groundwater Forum)
• Groundwater quality and protection (BGS)
• Groundwater and health (BGS)
• Cost of deteriorating groundwater quality (UK Groundwater Forum)
• Pathogens in groundwater (UK Groundwater Forum)
• Radioactive waste disposal and groundwater (UK Groundwater Forum)
• Quality of the nation's groundwater (USGS)
• Shale gas exploitation and groundwater (UK Groundwater Forum)
• Fracking and groundwater quality (Science Daily)

Case studies

• Arsenic in groundwater, China (BGS)
• Contamination of drinking water by bromate
• Hanford, Washington - contamination and clean-up of a former nuclear weapons site (video: 12 mins)

Groundwater hazards - floods

• What is groundwater flooding? (UK Groundwater Forum)
• Groundwater flooding (BGS)
• Groundwater flooding FAQs (BGS)
• Groundwater and flooding in Oxford (BGS)
• Rising groundwater in Central London (BGS)

Groundwater hazards - seismic activty, ground movements

• Is fracking to blame for US earthquakes? (CNBC video, 4:22 mins)

Waterworks - short photo-essays on water topics

• Coming soon

This page is maintained by Roger Suthren. Last updated 26 February, 2021 12:55 PM