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PubTalk-02/2022 - Do Droughts Affect Groundwater Quality? A California Story



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- Do Droughts Affect Groundwater Quality? A California Story

By Zeno Levy, USGS Research Geologist

- Groundwater is an important source of drinking water for millions of Californians, and billions worldwide.
- Conventional wisdom is groundwater quality is "slow" to respond to drought.
- New study links rapid increases of agricultural contaminants in drinking-water wells to intensive pumping of California aquifers during drought.
- Results highlight vulnerabilities of drinking-water resources to climate change in California and other drought-prone regions.

February 24th, 2022 at 6:00PM (PST)

Video: https://www.usgs.gov/public-lecture-series/latest-lecture
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