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Global Change Effects on Water Supplies
• Global inventory:
- Oceans 98.897 %
- Ice 1.060 %
- Underground 0.035 %
- Lakes and rivers 0.007 %
- Atmosphere 0.001 %
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The Hydrologic Cycle
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The Hydrologic Cycle
• Groundwater and runoff (stored in reservoirs) are the main, and practically speaking, only sources of water usable for drinking, agriculture, etc.
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Supply and Demand
• Precipitation does not always (rarely!) fall where the demand is.
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Who Uses What?
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Groundwater
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Aquifers
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What Happens When One Pumps From An Aquifer?
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Groundwater Contamination as a Result of Pumping
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Existing Saltwater Intrusion Problems Due to Pumping Alone
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• Approximate 4.2 million people depend on the Biscayne aquifer for water.
Existing Saltwater Intrusion Problems Due to Pumping Alone
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Saltwater Intrusion as a Result of Sea Level Rise
• Increase in sea level forces saltwater further into the aquifer.
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Additional Effects of Groundwater Pumping
• Freshwater demand is likely to increase due to a growing population and changes in precipitation/recharge patterns.
- Subsidence!
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Groundwater-Related Subsidence
• Water helps support the surrounding and overlying ground.
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Groundwater-Related Subsidence
• In areas where the underlying geology is predominantly limestone (calcium carbonate), groundwater will dissolve some of the rock over time.
H2O + CO2 + CaCO3 Ca2+ + 2HCO3-
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Tangent – Caves!
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Groundwater-Related Subsidence
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Groundwater-Related Subsidence
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Other Groundwater Issues – Ogallala Aquifer
• Primarily used for agriculture.
• Water was stored coming out of the last ice age. Modern recharge is negligible.
• Development led to a 100-foot drop in the water table by the mid-1980’s.
• Will likely empty it within decades.
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Surface Water
• Surface water exists where the land surface meets the water table.
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Surface Water
• Several big issues here:
- potential changes in where the precipitation falls.
- type of precipitation (snow versus rain).
- loss of natural reservoirs.
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Surface Water
• Relative changes in precipitation for the period 2090-2099 relative to 1980-1989. White areas are where less than 66% of the models agree. Stippled areas are where more than 90% of the models agree.
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Surface Water• Aqueducts
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Surface Water
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Surface Water
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Surface Water – Colorado River Compact
• In 1922 seven western states came up with an agreement to share the water from the Colorado River and its tributaries.
• Rapid development led to heavy water use leading to decreasing volume and water quality.
• By the mid-1960’s the lower part of the river had a total dissolved solid content of 2700 ppm (2.7 g/kg, about a tenth of that of seawater).
• U.S. built Mexico a desalinization plant as a result of a lawsuit.
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Surface Water – Colorado River Compact
• River survey done during an unusually wet period …
• Water divided up by volume rather then percent!
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• Low reservoir levels in many places around the world!
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Surface Water – Aral Sea
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Surface Water – Aral Sea
• Diversion of water draining into the Aral for irrigation has caused the lake to shrink.
- in 14 years, the Aral went from being the 4th to the 6th largest lake in the world
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Surface Water – Aral Sea
• Remaining water has a salinity nearly twice that of the ocean.• Blown salt from the dried lakebed harming agriculture and causing respiratory problems.
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Surface Water – Rain and Snow
• Snow and ice are critical parts of the hydrologic cycle in mountainous regions and at high latitudes.
• Water stored in the frozen state is released during Spring, providing water for the rest of the year.
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Surface Water – Rain Versus Snow
• Two issues here:
1) If the precipitation falls as rain it may overflow reservoir capacities, and that water must then be released.
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Surface Water – Decreasing Snow and Melting Snowpack
• Two issues here:
2) Mountain glaciers act as frozen reservoirs, and 80-90% of mountain glaciers worldwide are
receding.
1948 2002 2006
Switzerland
Washington
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Surface Water – Decreasing Snow and Melting Snowpack
Himalayas
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Surface Water – Decreasing Snow and Melting Snowpack
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Surface Water – Decreasing Snow and Melting Snowpack
Bolivia
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Surface Water – Decreasing Snow and Melting Snowpack
Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa
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• More than 2 million people depend on Mt. Kilimanjaro’s ice and snow for water.
• Projected to be gone within the next twenty years.
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Where to go for Water?
• Need to make undrinkable water drinkable.
- Filtration
- Distillation
- Reverse osmosis
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Where to go for Water?
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Now What?
• More so than temperature increases or sea level rise, diminishing or changing water supplies will likely be the a critical test of our ability to adjust to a changing climate.
- Change the way we use water (conservation, water reclamation).
- Infrastructure to move water from where we have enough to where we don’t.