Wednesday, 29 July 2020

The Groundwater Project – “Because the world needs water, groundwater”

The not-for-profit Groundwater Project casts itself as "an Evolving Platform for Groundwater Learning", with a goal "to publish educational materials, online and free-of-charge":


Groundwater is the source of drinking water for nearly half of the global population and supplies much of the world's irrigation water. Groundwater is complex, out-of-sight and mostly out-of-mind.
Humanity faces unprecedented challenges today. Our rapidly growing population and the demand for higher living standards are putting enormous pressure on our planet. Abundant and clean freshwater resources have been taken for granted, and groundwater, being invisible to human eyes, is a particular case in point. Many people have the misconception that the groundwater supply is infinite. This profound unawareness of the origin and fate of groundwater, compounded by our increasing appetite to withdraw more groundwater and the need to dispose of more waste, is the cause of rapidly growing problems associated with groundwater quantity and quality. Examples of groundwater over-exploitation and contamination appear in the news media nearly every day.
In writing the GW-Project, we tell the readers what we know as scientists...
The more people that know about the importance of groundwater the better. The UK could face water shortages in just 25 years, as we recently posted in ‘Great British Rain Paradox’:

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