National Academies Advisory -- June 8 public briefing on LANL groundwater protection
A new National Research Council report reviews the groundwater protection program at Los Alamos National Laboratory and identifies technical issues the laboratory should address to enhance the program's effectiveness. Groundwater contaminants at the 36-square-mile site stem from nuclear-weapons work that was don...DOE commits $27.5M for uranium contaminant transport field studies
... years to investigate the movement of contaminated groundwater at sites in Washington and Colorado. These two fi... instrumentation of field sites to investigate the groundwater and the vadose zone - or the subsurface soil and rock just above the groundwater - both of which are...A third of the world population faces water scarcity today
...ere water is either over-used - leading to falling groundwater levels and drying rivers - or can not be accessed ...ffected by environmental consequences from falling groundwater levels to dying rivers that no longer reach the sea. Another one billion people live in river basins...Columbia U receives $16.9M award to study origin and health effects of arsenic in ground water
...of arsenic and manganese exposure, particularly in groundwater of New England and South Asia. Building upon Co...o the team's researchers, arsenic contamination of groundwater and soils is associated with serious and widespread public health, mitigation, and environmental pol......te those risks. For example, EPA has not targeted groundwater for cleanup even though the main source of dissolv...entify specific places where zinc is leaching into groundwater and set priorities for removing or stabilizing these materials, the committee said. Locating and re...