Chicago, Illinois
This winter pollutant is responsible for rising chloride levels in groundwater and harming freshwater organisms.
What is road salt?
The main terrarium for Central Valley
What is flat, farmland
This is the main pollutant for wells and water systems in Nevada
What is Arsenic
This term describes the underground layer of rock or sediment that stores and supplies groundwater.
What is an aquifer?
This ecological feature begins to dry out when groundwater tables fall, leading to loss of species and habitat.
What is wetlands?
The land provides more than half of these to the United States
What is fruits, vegetables, and nuts?
This reason has lead to the increase in pumping of groundwater for irrigation and human supply
What is climate change
This type of governance problem occurs when multiple towns share the same aquifer but manage it separately.
What is fragmented or uncoordinated management?
This social impact occurs when suburbs must build expensive pipelines or switch to Lake Michigan water.
What are higher water costs for communities?
Accounts for changing water supply and demand across Central Valley, also stimulates groundwater flow
What is Central Valley Hydrologic Model (CVHM)?
This is the biggest issue rural homeowners in Nevada face leading to increasing costs
This process, reduced by urban pavement, naturally refills groundwater supplies by allowing water to soak into the ground.
What is groundwater recharge?
This solution involves rain gardens, permeable pavement, and bioswales to help restore groundwater recharge.
What is green infrastructure?
An ecological impact that affects not only the lands agriculture but the people and this intake of water
What is drought?
This was the solution used in golden county to help counter groundwater well declines
What are local artificial recharge programs
This principle of groundwater governance says that communities should involve stakeholders—such as residents, scientists, and policymakers—in decision-making.
What is participatory governance?
This regional strategy helps prevent over-pumping, protects streamflow and wetlands, and reduces long-term water insecurity by having suburbs manage aquifers collectively rather than individually.
What is coordinated regional groundwater governance (or regional water planning)?
Something we can do as people; some would say it is an act of generosity
What is donating?
This endemic species depends on the springflows in Nevada
What is Moapa Dace (Gila Coriacae)
This long-term management approach balances ecological needs, public health, economic costs, and water security, ensuring that groundwater withdrawal does not exceed natural recharge.
What is sustainable groundwater governance (or sustainable yield management)?