Hydraulic engineering
How groundwater is saving California farmers during drought
Steve Arthur has been in the well-drilling business for decades and says he’s never seen anything quite like what’s happening now in California’s San Joaquin Valley. “People just call and say, ‘Put me on the list.’ I can’t keep up with the demand, “ Arthur says. “I met with two customers yesterday, and ended up […]
Middle East Troubled Waters: Mountain Aquifer
Water is a source of conflict between Isreal and nearly all its neighbors. The struggle over land could just as easily be called a struggle over water, for without water, land produces little. In part one of our special series examining water in the Middle East, “Troubled Waters”, Living On Earth’s Sandy Tolan examines how […]
Still a Few Bugs in the System
Living on Earth’s George Homsy reports from Boston on the problems of Combined Sewer Overflows, which plague 1200 communities around the country. Remnants of the days before sewage treatment plants, CSOs allow sewers to overflow into local waterways during heavy rainstorms. Municipalities are appealing to Washington for help in meeting the estimated $200 billion cost […]