Global Perspectives

• IAH Commission on Groundwater and Climate Change
• Groundwater and Climate Change: Challenges and Possibilities

California/Western States' Focus

• Western Ground Water and Climate Change: Pivotal to Supply Sustainability or Vulnerable in its own Right? (Ground Water News and Views, June 2007)
• California’s Water Storage Problem, the Underworld, and the Body (UC Davis)
• Groundwater: California's Hidden Resource (Bulletin 118, 2003 update, California Dept. of Water Resources
• Oregon's Groundwater Protection Program

Tools/Data Sources

• USGS Groundwater Networks (U.S. Geological Survey)
• Water Data Library (California Dept. of Water Resources)

Santa Clara Valley's Groundwater

• Groundwater (SCVWD)

Recharge/Infiltration

• Climate Change and Groundwater Recharge (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture)

Salt Water Intrusion

• Effect of climate change and land use change on saltwater intrusion (Encyclopedia of Earth)
• Watershed Management Program in the Pajaro Valley, California, U.S.A.: An Integrative and Sustainable Approach to Stop Salt Water Intrusion and Avoid Depletion of Groundwater Resources (ASCE conference paper)
• Coastal Water Supplies (U.S. EPA)
• Sea Level Rise Impact Scenarios for Santa Clara County Water Resources (SCVWD)

Over Drafting/Over Allocation

• Stealing water from the future: California's massive groundwater overdraft newly revealed (Peter Gleick, SF Gate)

Carbon Sequestration

• Geologic Carbon Sequestration Program (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)

More Reports

• All Reports on Groundwater and Climate Change

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