Overpumping leads to California groundwater arsenic threat
Groundwater resources are coming under increasing pressure leading to water quality loss. Here, the authors find that recent groundwater pumping has led to increasing arsenic concentrations in the San Joaquin Valley, California aquifers from arsenic residing in the pore water of clay strata released...
Main Authors: | Ryan Smith, Rosemary Knight, Scott Fendorf |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2018-06-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04475-3 |
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