Groundwater
topic on 2 shows · 4 statements across 2 episodes
4 statements about Groundwater, every show
Srikantaiah: Excavating two five-star hotels completely drained surrounding Bangalore aquifers
“There was a five-star hotel built close to Mount Carmel College and one near Macri Circle. They pumped out groundwater for four to six months, completely emptying all the wells in the surrounding areas. Emptying the aquifer totally.”
Srikantaiah: India extracts more groundwater than China and the US combined
“Together, China and USA don't draw to 50 cubic kilometers as much water as we draw individually for ourselves. So we are the world's largest user of groundwater”
Schneider: California Overdraws One Million Acre-Feet of Groundwater Annually
“At the end of the day, water in the ground for the last, for all of California's recent history, actually going back decades, ground, we have had a net draft on groundwater pretty much every year of something like a million acre feet a year.”
Schneider: Reintroducing Beavers Restores Perennial Stream Flow via Groundwater Recharge
“Projects that have been done to reintroduce beaver into streams that are going dry every year in the summer, and once beaver are reintroduced, you have re-perennialized flow. Again, that's just simply a matter of getting, having water sit on the landscape for …”