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California Water Use Estimates for 2010 Released

California Water Use Estimates for 2010 Released

About 38 billion gallons per day (42,000,000 acre-feet per year) of water were withdrawn from groundwater and surface-water sources in California in...

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Historic Map Project Leader Feted by Librarians

Historic Map Project Leader Feted by Librarians

Retired USGS cartographer Gregory Allord was named the 2014 recipient of the American Library Association’s Map and Geospatial Information Round Table...

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Critical Volcano and Earthquake Monitoring Recovered after Tropical Storm Iselle

Critical Volcano and Earthquake Monitoring Recovered after Tropical Storm Iselle

As of Wednesday afternoon, August 13, all power issues were resolved and the U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory resumed monitoring...

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A Decade of Water Science: USGS Helps Assess Water Resources in Afghanistan

A Decade of Water Science: USGS Helps Assess Water Resources in Afghanistan

For the past decade, scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey have shared their expertise with the Afghanistan Geological Survey (AGS) in efforts to...

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A Decade of Water Science: USGS Helps Assess Water Resources in Afghanistan

A Decade of Water Science: USGS Helps Assess Water Resources in Afghanistan

For the past decade, scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey have shared their expertise with the Afghanistan Geological Survey (AGS) in efforts to...

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Cuyama Valley Groundwater Withdrawals Are Double The Long-Term Replenishment

Cuyama Valley Groundwater Withdrawals Are Double The Long-Term Replenishment

Groundwater is the sole source for agricultural, domestic and municipal water use in California’s Cuyama Valley, located primarily in Santa Barbara...

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Recent Chilean Earthquakes Signal Potential for Similar Future Events

Recent Chilean Earthquakes Signal Potential for Similar Future Events

Despite the magnitude 8.2 earthquake that hit northern Chile in April 2014, the plate boundary in that region is still capable of hosting shocks of...

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Arizona’s Santa Cruz River Chronicled in New Environmental History

Arizona’s Santa Cruz River Chronicled in New Environmental History

The somber ecological consequences of human-caused landscape change and unsustainable water use in a western watershed are carefully examined in the...

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Three USGS Scientists Honored as Fellows of the Ecological Society of America

Three USGS Scientists Honored as Fellows of the Ecological Society of America

The U.S. Geological Survey is celebrating the achievements of three noted scientists who are being recognized today as 2014 Ecological Society of...

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USGS Science at Ecological Society of America’s Conference: From Climate Change to Fire, Drought, and Wind Energy

USGS Science at Ecological Society of America’s Conference: From Climate Change to Fire, Drought, and Wind Energy

From climate change to wind energy effects on birds and bats to wildlife disease, U.S. Geological Survey research will be presented at the...

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USGS to Begin Drilling "Sentinel" Wells Near Kirtland Air Force Base

USGS to Begin Drilling "Sentinel" Wells Near Kirtland Air Force Base

Beginning around August 7, scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey will be drilling “sentinel” wells at the first of three locations in the...

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Chloride Contamination of Wichita’s Water Supply Inevitable Unless Actions Taken

Chloride Contamination of Wichita’s Water Supply Inevitable Unless Actions Taken

Chloride contamination of Wichita’s water-supply wells is inevitable unless actions are taken, according to U.S. Geological Survey scientists and...

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