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The Colorado River Basin has lost as much groundwater as the entire volume of Lake Mead
Deep below the surface of the ground in one of the driest parts of the country, there is a looming problem: The water is ...
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The Colorado River Basin Has Lost Enough Groundwater Alone To Fill Lake Mead
The world’s groundwater is disappearing at a rate so great as to knock the Earth off its axis. Like any global threat, though ...
The Colorado River Basin’s groundwater is disappearing faster than the river itself
The Colorado River Basin lost an alarming amount of groundwater over the past 20 years, a new study found. Nearly 28 million acre-feet of water has been depleted from the region, nearly the volume of ...
Groundwater supplies are plunging across the Colorado River Basin: Study
The Colorado River Basin’s groundwater supplies are dwindling, thanks to a combination of both natural events and human ...
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Study: Groundwater loss across Colorado River Basin threatens economic security
— Most of the total water losses occurred in the drier Lower Colorado River basin. It lost 20.7 million acre-feet of ...
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Colorado River Basin has lost as much water as a full Lake Mead since 2003, study says
The researchers found that groundwater was being depleted faster than it could be restored, and that total water loss was ...
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Groundwater drying up in Colorado River Basin, study finds
Basinwide, researchers found, groundwater storage has fallen by 27.8 million acre-feet since 2003 — enough water to fill an ...
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Groundwater in the Colorado River Basin is being depleted. What that means for the Coachella Valley
New research is showing that groundwater from the Colorado River Basin, or CRB, is depleting more quickly than most first ...
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Colorado River groundwater at risk
Groundwater is at risk along the parched Colorado River, where a meager amount of melted snowpack is trickling down the river. Here & Now ‘s Peter O’Dowd talks with KUNC’s Alex Hager about the current ...
The Colorado River is running low. The picture looks even worse underground, study says.
The Colorado River Basin has lost twice as much groundwater since 2003 as water taken out of its reservoirs, according to a ...
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The Colorado River Basin has lost as much groundwater as the entire volume of Lake Mead
The amount of groundwater that has been pumped out of the Colorado River Basin since 2003 is enough to fill Lake Mead, researchers report in a study published earlier this week. Most of that water ...