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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.

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USGS Water Science Centers are located in each state.

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Groundwater & the Environment

Process-oriented groundwater science is being used to assess the long-term availability of groundwater supplies while also addressing the environmental effects of groundwater development on land and surface-water resources. The Groundwater Resources Program recognizes its responsibility to conduct and synthesize groundwater investigations on regional and national scales. The management and policy questions that drive regional assessments of groundwater availability do, in turn, drive and identify fundamental process-oriented groundwater science that can vary across different geographic and hydrogeologic settings. The Groundwater Resources Program is well suited to conduct these investigations of priority science issues and place them in a regional context that will clearly complement current efforts to assess the Nation’s groundwater availability.

Priority science issues of interest will be addressed as resources allow. Examples of these process-oriented groundwater science issues include:

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