"Millions of years ago, sediment from the Rocky Mountains was deposited in the High Plains. Over thousands of years, water dripped below the surface creating an underground water deposit called the Ogallala Aquifer. The water — which spans from South Dakota to Texas and was once the size of Lake Huron — at one point accounted for 30% of the crop and animal production in the U.S…
Although the water source stretches across several states it moves very very slowly. As a result, no interstate compact exists to manage the water in the Ogallala. Instead, neighbors have to band together if they want to restrict pumping…” #GIS#spatial#mapping#hydrogeology#waterresources#watermanagement#modeling#ogallala#OgallalaAquifer#water#hydrology#watersecurity#pumping#mining#irrigation#farming#agriculture#midwest#aquifer#overpumping
“the #HeatDome was a foreshock of the world to come, with impacts both immediate and long-lasting. Yet it occurred in a world that has only warmed, on average, about 1.2 degrees since 1850. We’re now racing to 1.5 degrees and are likely to cross that threshold by the mid-2030s.” #ClimateCrisishttps://mastodon.social/@ryanschultz/110906759659640682
“John Pomeroy, #Canada Research Chair in #WaterResources and #ClimateChange at the #UniversityOfSaskatchewan, says faster-than-expected melting in the past few years makes it likely that all the #glaciers of the #Rockies—including the famed #ColumbiaIcefield, upon which a thriving tourism industry depends—will all be gone by the end of the century, save for a few remnants. That means reduced flows to rivers that millions of people depend on”
Dataset 📊| Monthly Aggregated Water Vapor MODIS MCD19A2 (1 km). We just published this complete dataset with long-term global coverage spanning 23 years (2000-2022).
💧 Some of its potential uses include studies in #waterresources, #agriculturalplanning, and #climateadaptation, essential for research institutions, environmental and water resource management authorities. To download this dataset 💦, please visit https://zenodo.org/record/8192544 #opendata#OpenEarthMonitor