How much water can be captured from flood flows to store in depleted aquifers for mitigating floods and droughts? A case study from Texas, US
Extreme flooding from Hurricane Harvey (∼100 km ^3 , ∼80 million acre feet, maf of rainfall) in Houston, Texas, US co-located with depleted aquifers raises the question of whether we can capture floodwater to reduce flooding impacts and replenish aquifers for droughts. Here we quantified how much wa...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2019-01-01
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Series: | Environmental Research Letters |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab148e |