Stress Levels of Major Global Aquifers Revealed by Groundwater Footprint Study

In the “first spatially explicit comparison of groundwater use, availability, and environmental flow for aquifers globally,” a new article in Nature finds that the “size of the global groundwater footprint is currently about 3.5 times the actual area of aquifers.” An aquifer’s footprint is the theoretical size it would need to be to sustainably support … Continue reading Stress Levels of Major Global Aquifers Revealed by Groundwater Footprint Study