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New & Noteworthy

* Press Release: Irrigation Causing Declines in the High Plains Aquifer

* Press Release: New Study Lends Insight to Decreasing Denver Basin Groundwater Availability

* Press Release: Groundwater Storage Losses Substantial Across Eight State Aquifer System

* Report: Groundwater availability of the Mississippi embayment

* Report: New tool to assess groundwater resources in the Mississippi embayment

* Report: Selected approaches to estimate water-budget components of the High Plains, 1940-1949 and 2000-2009

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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.

[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 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

[Cover: USGS SIR 2011-5089] Water-Level Changes in the High Plains Aquifer, Predevelopment to 2009, 2007–08, and 2008–09, and Change in Water in Storage, Predevelopment to 2009
USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5089

[Cover: USGS PP 1778] Water Availability and Use Pilot: A Multiscale Assessment in the U.S. Great Lakes Basin
USGS Professional Paper 1778

[Cover: USGS PP 1773] Groundwater Availability in the Atlantic Coastal Plain of North and South Carolina
USGS Professional Paper 1773

[Cover: USGS Professional Paper 1766] Groundwater availability of the Central Valley Aquifer, California
USGS Professional Paper 1766

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Regional Groundwater Studies

[Map: USGS Regional Groundwater Availability Studies]

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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