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International Water Science
Information about water resources is fundamental to national and local economic well-being, protection of life and property, and effective management. The USGS works with domestic and international partners to monitor, assess, and conduct targeted research on a wide range of water resource conditions, including streamflow, groundwater, water quality, and water use and availability.
USGS provides reliable information to answer your questions and provide assistance related to international water resources science issues, including impacts to people and communities. Training and technology transfer often are integral to the technical assistance provided by USGS international activities.
International studies related to water are conducted by scientists from throughout USGS on topics including:
- streams, lakes, reservoirs
- aquifers, wells, springs
- snow, ice, glaciers
- groundwater/surface water exchange
- extreme hydrologic events
- floods & droughts
- transboundary assessments
- streamgaging networks
- stormwater & wastewater
- erosion & sedimentation
- contaminants & pollution
- eutrophication & harmful algal blooms
- water supply & demand
- water temperature & thermal stress
- hydrogeophysical studies
- sea level rise impacts
Latest Science
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Research in the Los Planes Watershed – Water Cycle Augmentation
The USGS is working with partners to understand the impacts of installing structures made from rock, sandbags and wood in channels at a dryland ranch in southern Baja California. Hydrogeological instrumentation, recording observations, modeling hydrogeological scenarios, and an interdisciplinary scientific study of the watershed interactions between water, ecological systems, and human activities...
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Accelerating Aquifer Storage & Recovery in the Middle East and North Africa Region
In cooperation with the U.S. Agency for International Development, USGS helped regional partners assess the suitability for managing scarce groundwater resources, and improving water supply, using artificial recharge methods.
Latest Publications
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Virtual training prepared for the former Afghanistan Ministry of Energy and Water—Streamgaging, fluvial sediment sampling, bathymetry, and streamflow and sediment modeling
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) created a virtual training series for the Afghanistan Ministry of Energy and Water (MEW), now known as the National Water Affairs Regulation Authority (NWARA), to provide critical hydrological training as an alternative to an in-person training. The USGS was scheduled to provide in-person surface-water training for NWARA during 2020; however, travel was halted becAuthorsJoel T. Groten, Joshua F. Valder, Brenda K. Densmore, Logan W. Neal, Justin Krahulik, Thomas J. Mack
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Managed aquifer recharge suitability—Regional screening and case studies in Jordan and Lebanon
The U.S. Geological Survey, at the request of the U.S. Agency for International Development, led a 5-year regional project to develop and apply methods for water availability and suitability mapping for managed aquifer recharge (MAR) in the Middle East and North Africa region. A regional model of surface runoff for the period from 1984 to 2015 was developed to characterize water availability using
Also see:
Water Mission Area International Activities
International Water Resources Branch (Archive)
Up to International Science Theme: Water
Research in the Los Planes Watershed – Water Cycle Augmentation
Accelerating Aquifer Storage & Recovery in the Middle East and North Africa Region
U.S. National Committee for the International Hydrological Programme
Brazilian Agencies Partner With USGS On Water Programs
Mongolia - Building Groundwater Modeling Capacity
Armenia - Building Groundwater Management Capacity for the Ararat Valley
Virtual training prepared for the former Afghanistan Ministry of Energy and Water—Streamgaging, fluvial sediment sampling, bathymetry, and streamflow and sediment modeling
Managed aquifer recharge suitability—Regional screening and case studies in Jordan and Lebanon
Hydrogeologic framework and simulation of predevelopment groundwater flow, eastern Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Improving our understanding of hydraulic-electrical relations: A case study of the surficial aquifer in Emirate Abu Dhabi
Groundwater-level trends and forecasts, and salinity trends, in the Azraq, Dead Sea, Hammad, Jordan Side Valleys, Yarmouk, and Zarqa groundwater basins, Jordan
Changes in groundwater levels and salinity in six groundwater basins in Jordan were characterized by using linear trends fit to well-monitoring data collected from 1960 to early 2011. On the basis of data for 117 wells, groundwater levels in the six basins were declining, on average about -1 meter per year (m/yr), in 2010. The highest average rate of decline, -1.9 m/yr, occurred in the Jordan Side
Stream gage descriptions and streamflow statistics for sites in the Tigris River and Euphrates River Basins, Iraq
Atmospheric bromine flux from the coastal Abu Dhabi sabkhat: A ground-water mass-balance investigation
Water-resources reconnaissance of Ile de la Gonave, Haiti
Source of solutes to the coastal sabkha of Abu Dhabi
Hydrology of the coastal sabkhas of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Simulation of aquifer storage recovery of excess desalinated seawater, al ain area, Abu Dhabi Emirate
Information about water resources is fundamental to national and local economic well-being, protection of life and property, and effective management. The USGS works with domestic and international partners to monitor, assess, and conduct targeted research on a wide range of water resource conditions, including streamflow, groundwater, water quality, and water use and availability.
USGS provides reliable information to answer your questions and provide assistance related to international water resources science issues, including impacts to people and communities. Training and technology transfer often are integral to the technical assistance provided by USGS international activities.
International studies related to water are conducted by scientists from throughout USGS on topics including:
- streams, lakes, reservoirs
- aquifers, wells, springs
- snow, ice, glaciers
- groundwater/surface water exchange
- extreme hydrologic events
- floods & droughts
- transboundary assessments
- streamgaging networks
- stormwater & wastewater
- erosion & sedimentation
- contaminants & pollution
- eutrophication & harmful algal blooms
- water supply & demand
- water temperature & thermal stress
- hydrogeophysical studies
- sea level rise impacts
Latest Science
-
Research in the Los Planes Watershed – Water Cycle Augmentation
The USGS is working with partners to understand the impacts of installing structures made from rock, sandbags and wood in channels at a dryland ranch in southern Baja California. Hydrogeological instrumentation, recording observations, modeling hydrogeological scenarios, and an interdisciplinary scientific study of the watershed interactions between water, ecological systems, and human activities...
-
Accelerating Aquifer Storage & Recovery in the Middle East and North Africa Region
In cooperation with the U.S. Agency for International Development, USGS helped regional partners assess the suitability for managing scarce groundwater resources, and improving water supply, using artificial recharge methods.
Latest Publications
-
Virtual training prepared for the former Afghanistan Ministry of Energy and Water—Streamgaging, fluvial sediment sampling, bathymetry, and streamflow and sediment modeling
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) created a virtual training series for the Afghanistan Ministry of Energy and Water (MEW), now known as the National Water Affairs Regulation Authority (NWARA), to provide critical hydrological training as an alternative to an in-person training. The USGS was scheduled to provide in-person surface-water training for NWARA during 2020; however, travel was halted becAuthorsJoel T. Groten, Joshua F. Valder, Brenda K. Densmore, Logan W. Neal, Justin Krahulik, Thomas J. Mack
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Managed aquifer recharge suitability—Regional screening and case studies in Jordan and Lebanon
The U.S. Geological Survey, at the request of the U.S. Agency for International Development, led a 5-year regional project to develop and apply methods for water availability and suitability mapping for managed aquifer recharge (MAR) in the Middle East and North Africa region. A regional model of surface runoff for the period from 1984 to 2015 was developed to characterize water availability using
Also see:
Water Mission Area International Activities
International Water Resources Branch (Archive)
Up to International Science Theme: Water
Research in the Los Planes Watershed – Water Cycle Augmentation
Accelerating Aquifer Storage & Recovery in the Middle East and North Africa Region
U.S. National Committee for the International Hydrological Programme
Brazilian Agencies Partner With USGS On Water Programs
Mongolia - Building Groundwater Modeling Capacity
Armenia - Building Groundwater Management Capacity for the Ararat Valley
Virtual training prepared for the former Afghanistan Ministry of Energy and Water—Streamgaging, fluvial sediment sampling, bathymetry, and streamflow and sediment modeling
Managed aquifer recharge suitability—Regional screening and case studies in Jordan and Lebanon
Hydrogeologic framework and simulation of predevelopment groundwater flow, eastern Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Improving our understanding of hydraulic-electrical relations: A case study of the surficial aquifer in Emirate Abu Dhabi
Groundwater-level trends and forecasts, and salinity trends, in the Azraq, Dead Sea, Hammad, Jordan Side Valleys, Yarmouk, and Zarqa groundwater basins, Jordan
Changes in groundwater levels and salinity in six groundwater basins in Jordan were characterized by using linear trends fit to well-monitoring data collected from 1960 to early 2011. On the basis of data for 117 wells, groundwater levels in the six basins were declining, on average about -1 meter per year (m/yr), in 2010. The highest average rate of decline, -1.9 m/yr, occurred in the Jordan Side