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SUBMITTER: Hilton A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC11006208 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hilton Annette A Jasechko Scott S
Science advances 20230913 37
Water supplies for household use and irrigated agriculture rely on groundwater wells. When wells are drilled into a highly pressurized aquifer, groundwater may flow up the well and onto the land surface without pumping. These flowing artesian wells were common in the early 1900s in the United States before intensive groundwater withdrawals began, but their present-day prevalence remains unknown. Here, we compile and analyze ten thousand well water observations made more than a century ago. We sh ...[more]