It’s Groundwater Day at Waterblogged.info! Surely not as much fun as Groundhog Day, but way more important.
Friends don't let friends let groundhogs drive.
Getting serious about groundwater is the way for you to move quickly up the ranks from water wanabee to water wonk, and essential for refining your wretched water table manners, as well.
If you’re thinking groundwater is just water in the ground and what’s all the fuss, go to the Wikipedia page on groundwater. Immediately. We’ll wait here. After you read it, you will know more about groundwater than 90 percent of the planet’s inhabitants. When you return, expand your knowledge with the multimedia extravaganza of groundwater information links that the good folks at Waterblogged.info have compiled, with a fevered and selfless sense of mission, just for you.
This is the first installment of part 3 of Waterblogged.info’‘s ever-expanding, increasingly essential, and someday award-winning Getting Serious with Waterblogged.info series. See top of right column for more. These links barely scratch the surface, but they will keep you busy and out of the bars for a long while, and we will add to and update them regularly. No, really, we will.
Sources from Wikipedia’s article on groundwater. Some are repeated below.
- The Groundwater Foundation
- Groundwater Information from the Coastal Ocean Institute
- National Ground Water Association
- Connected Waters Initiative, University of New South Wales
- American Water Resources Association
- IGRAC International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre
- Bibliography on Water Resources and International Law Peace Palace Library
- Multimedia course on groundwater
Expert speaking on groundwater at the California Colloquium on Water. Complete with exciting PowerPoint presentation! *See caveat below, in entry about Robert Glennon. From the YouTube summary:
A growing awareness of groundwater as a critical natural resource leads to some basic questions. How much groundwater do we have left? Are we running out? Where are groundwater resources most stressed? Where are they most available for future supply? This presentation discusses how the issues associated with groundwater depletion have evolved, what we know about the Nation’s groundwater reserves today, and approaches to improve upon that knowledge base at the regional and national scale.
A video about groundwater geography in India. Good introduction of the topic. http://thewaterchannel.tv/index.php?option=com_hwdvideoshare&task=viewvideo&Itemid=53&video_id=114
Groundwater is an essential part of the water cycle. Learn all about the water cycle at Waterblogged.info’s first annual summer film festival! Admittedly, some of the vids are included for the sake of eliciting hearty chuckles and LOL’s, but you’ll come away with a new appreciation of the water cycle as well as artistic license.
The blog of the non-profit Groundwater Foundation
YouTube – California Colloquium on Water: Robert Glennon on the state of the U.S.’s groundwater
Robert Glennon is an expert on groundwater and the author of “Water Follies,” a grim survey of the current state of groundwater in the U.S. *Caveat: All of the Colloquium’s videos start with some nice lady talking about things that the attendees don’t really seem to care about–and that are obviously going to bore the crap out of Waterblogged.info’s easily distracted readers–-followed by a professorial type introducing the speaker in a truly lugubrious and overly effusive fashion. Skip that BS and go right to Glennon, a sparking and engaging speaker.
Groundwater. Basic information and diagrams from an Indian site. India has unique groundwater issues, but most of the information is pertinent to any region of the world.
The US Geological Survey Groundwater Resource
The U.S. Geological Survey provides an interactive map that links to 13 chapters which describe the ground-water resources of regional areas that collectively cover the 50 States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Island
Resources suggested by ground water guru, Michael Campana
Groundwater Resources Association of California
Groundwater Protection Council
International Association of Hydrogeologists
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