Aquifer Videos

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This episode discusses dwindling groundwater resources in India. To find out more visit: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/ag_casts/index.html Want more? Subscribe to NASA on iTunes! http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=283424434 Or get tweeted by NASA: http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard One of the biggest changes to global agriculture is less about the food itself as it is about the water we use to grow it. In some areas, farmers are using freshwater resources - including groundwater - at an alarming rate. The GRACE satellites enable scientists to discover changes to underground aquifers by monitoring changes in the Earth's gravity. In northern India, farmers rely heavily on irrigation to grow crops, and the resulting massive aquifer depletion creates an uncertain future for the region.

A cowboy realizes his dream of owning his own ranch, only to have the water run dry soon after he acquires the property. This Deep West video premeired at the 25th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. Length: 7:49 (2009, by Jane Ambrose Morton with Bob Luttrell) Author: westernfolklife Keywords: entertainment ranching water aquifer Elko Deep West cowboy gathering Added: March 24, 2009

In this one-hour program, Estefania Lazo-Herencia and Jack Goodman talk about their trips to Arequipa, Peru and the development of the Rio Chili Project. Estefania was a Colorado River Watch student in her teens in Austin and is now a Geology/Geography student at the University of Texas at Austin. Jack is on the board of the Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District and a board member of the Save Barton Creek Association. He is a former Executive Director of the Colorado River Watch Foundation. A river called the Rio Chili flows from the Andes Mountains to Estefania 's hometown of Arequipa, Peru. The Rio Chili passes through Arequipa in much the same way that the Colorado River flows through Austin. She and Jack traveled to Peru and took water quality samples along the Rio Chili to demonstrate the extent of water pollution and to try to improve conditions for the river. Education proved to be the key to improving the river's health and that of the local inhabitants, so the "Friends of the Rio Chili" was formed. iconmedia's Pam Thompson and Stefan Wray produce Austin News Real in the studios of channelAustin. This Austin News Real program aired on channelAustin 10 from 6:00 to 7:00 pm on February 5, 2009. channelAustin is Austin's community television and digital media center. See www.channelaustin.org

In May of 2008 James Howard Kunstler delivers the latest information with regard to "The Long Emergency"

There's a new crop growing in the Palouse. It's grass 100 acres of it. It's a world class golf course on the campus of Washington State University. Many golfers are excited. But the green swath of hills has tee'd off environmentalists that say Pullman's ancient aquifer is being drawn down too quickly. Correspondent Anna King visited the new course to bring us this story.

Drying up Palestine is a 28-minute documentary by Rima Essa and Peter Snowdon about water access issues in the occupied West Bank. The film was produced by Gourna Films for the Palestinian NGO House of Water and Environment. It describes the stresses and strains imposed on Palestinan society by Israel's almost total control over water resources in the occupied territories. The sequences form an arc covering the main episodes in the history of this water grab from 1967 to the present day.After a brief prologue setting the scene, chapter one begins in Bardala, a village in the Jordan Valley, whose traditional water sources were dried up by the first deep wells drilled by the Israelis in the mid-70s to supply the agricultural settlements they were establishing at that time. The villagers describe the impact that this has had on their lives and livelihoods to the present day. The shadow of more recent forms of harrassment is never far from their minds.

Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District (BSEACD) sponsored its 6th Annual Austin Cave Festival on Saturday, October 27, 2007, at the Village of Western Oaks Karst Preserve. The event featured many Austin area organizations that focus on caving and on water issues.This is a 54 minute version of video about Cave Fest that aired on community television in Austin as part of ICONMEDIA.ORG's Austin News Real series Texas Water 101.