{"id":10009,"date":"2017-02-07T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T01:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10009"},"modified":"2017-02-07T20:51:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T01:51:00","slug":"our-changing-water-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/02\/our-changing-water-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Our changing water future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month NASA published a study showing that 1\/3 of big groundwater basins across the earth were in distress. \u00a0One of them was what they list as the\u00a0Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains aquifer, which provides irrigation and drinking water to a large area of south Georgia, Alabama, Florida and other states around the Gulf of Mexico. \u00a0This could be a problem in the future if rising temperatures increase evaporation, which could lead to needed increases in irrigation to supply water for crops and livestock. \u00a0This aquifer is one of two in the US that are experiencing a net loss in water as observed by NASA&#8217;s GRACE satellite system. \u00a0You can read more about it at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/jpl\/grace\/study-third-of-big-groundwater-basins-in-distress\/\">https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/jpl\/grace\/study-third-of-big-groundwater-basins-in-distress\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related to this is a story on NASA&#8217;s H20 radio show at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/h2oradio.org\/NASA_JPL.html\">https:\/\/h2oradio.org\/NASA_JPL.html<\/a>, which describes more about how GRACE works and what the changes we are seeing mean for the future of our water supplies. \u00a0You can also read about it at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/spaceimages\/details.php?id=PIA20204\">https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/spaceimages\/details.php?id=PIA20204<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/grace-water-trends-US.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10010\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/grace-water-trends-US-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/grace-water-trends-US-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/grace-water-trends-US-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/grace-water-trends-US.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/grace-water-trends-US-263x138.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month NASA published a study showing that 1\/3 of big groundwater basins across the earth were in distress. \u00a0One of them was what they list as the\u00a0Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains aquifer, which provides irrigation and drinking water to a large area of south Georgia, Alabama, Florida and other states around the Gulf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":10010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10011,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10009\/revisions\/10011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}