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[Photo: Groundwater flowing out of well.]

New & Noteworthy

* Press Release: New USGS Report Updates Decline of High Plains Aquifer Groundwater Levels

* Journal Article: Review: Groundwater in Alaska [Link exits the USGS web site]

* Technical Announcement: Groundwater's Greater Role in Waterways Demonstrated in Virginia

* Technical Announcement: How Does Groundwater Pumping Affect Streamflow?

* Media Advisory: Briefing on Groundwater

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USGS Groundwater Watch

USGS maintains a network of active wells to provide basic statistics about groundwater levels.

[Image: USGS active water level wells location map.]

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USGS Water Science Centers are located in each state.

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USGS Groundwater Resources Program

The Groundwater Resources Program provides the objective scientific information and develops the interdisciplinary understanding necessary to assess and quantify the availability of the Nation's groundwater resources.

[Map of Hawaii, location of the new Hawaii Volcanic-Rock Aquifers regional groundwater study.] [Conceptual diagram of groundwater flow in the Mississippi embayment aquifer system study area.] [Conceptual diagram of groundwater flow in the Great Basin carbonate and alluvial aquifer system study area.] [Map: Changes in groundwater levesl in High Plains aquifer system.]

Highlighted GWRP Publications

[Cover: USGS Circular 1384] new: Report to Congress: Progress Toward Establishing a National Assessment of Water Availability and Use
USGS Circular 1384

[Cover: USGS SIR 2012-5291] Water-Level and Storage Changes in the High Plains Aquifer, Predevelopment to 2011 and 2009–11
USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2012-5291

[Cover: USGS SIR 2012-5261] Groundwater Status and Trends for the Columbia Plateau Regional Aquifer System, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho?
USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2012-5261

[Cover: USGS Paper 1770] Groundwater Availability of the Denver Basin Aquifer System, Colorado
USGS Professional Paper 1770

[Cover: USGS Fact Sheet 2011-3115] New tool to assess groundwater resources in the Mississippi embayment
USGS Fact Sheet 2011-3115

[Cover: USGS Professional Paper 1785] Groundwater availability of the Mississippi embayment
USGS Professional Paper 1785

[Cover: USGS SIR 2011-5183] Selected approaches to estimate water-budget components of the High Plains, 1940-1949 and 2000-2009
USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5183

[Cover: USGS SIM 3182] Potentiometric surface of the Upper Floridan aquifer in Florida and parts of Georgia, South Carolina, and Alabama, May – June 2010
USGS Scientific Investigation Map 3182

[Cover: USGS SIR 2011-5071] Water Availability and Use Pilot: Methods Development for a Regional Assessment of Groundwater Availability, Southwest Alluvial Basins, Arizona
USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5071

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Regional Groundwater Studies

[Map: USGS Regional Groundwater Availability Studies, Updated January 2013]

Methods and Modeling

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Data & Information

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Groundwater & the Environment

[Photo: Rhodomine dye is injected in a stream to trace water movement through a karst aquifer (photograph by Charles Taylor, USGS).]

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