Groundwater supplies drinking water for 51% of the U.S. population, and nearly 99% in rural areas. In many areas, groundwater is being withdrawn at a much faster rate than it can be naturally recharged, leading to land subsidence and impairment of the aquifer. WERRI researchers are developing new methods to accurately predict groundwater transport and aquifer replenishment, groundwater-surface water interactions, and new techniques to accelerate the rate of groundwater recharge using storm runoff.
- Managing Reservoirs and Aquifers Use (Larry L. Dale)
- Multi-Scale Monitoring Framework for Risk Assessment (Dipankar Dwivedi)
- Enabling Water-Energy Decision Support Using Watershed-scale Surrogate Models (Juliane Mueller)
- Enhancing California Groundwater Recharge (Michelle Newcomer)
- Use of EM-38 Soil Salinity Surveys to Calibrate a 1-D Transient Model for Decision Support and Sustainable Salinity Management (Nigel W.T. Quinn)
- Innovative Groundwater Monitoring through Data/Simulation Technologies (Haruko Wainwright)