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That's the aquifer that serves where I live, San Antonio, among other parts of the region. It's neat seeing the Edwards Aquifer mentioned here along with that s
by mariojv 3y ago
That's the aquifer that serves where I live, San Antonio, among other parts of the region. It's neat seeing the Edwards Aquifer mentioned here along with that site!
I remember local news reporting on the aquifer level quite a bit throughout my life. Curious if other regions near major aquifers do the same thing. It really raises awareness about water management. The news publishes the "worst offending addresses" for water overuse occasionally, too. We had the worst drought in recent memory for the region last year, although this year seems to be starting to make up for that.
The city's also diversified its water supply outside the aquifer in recent years, such as establishing the Vista Ridge Pipeline from less populated areas of Texas into San Antonio: https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2020/05/08/a-project-10-years-in-the-making-vista-ridge-pipeline-is-now-online/ https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2020/05/08/a-project-10-year...
I imagine water infrastructure projects like this are only going to become more common as the climate changes in coming years. The massive aquifer recharge projects mentioned in the original article about California aquifers make me wonder if there's some way one could engineer a very large scale desalination project using natural resources. A project using geothermal resources for evaporative desalination could be interesting.
- icehawk 3y agoTo expand on the second paragraph: It wasn't until I moved out of San Antonio, that I realized that you don't get a daily report in the local news as to how much water is in your local water supply.