Rethinking groundwater age

Grant Ferguson, Mark O. Cuthbert, K. M. Befus, Tom Gleeson, Jennifer C. McIntosh


Abstract
It is commonly thought that old groundwater cannot be pumped sustainably, and that recently recharged groundwater is inherently sustainable. We argue that both old and young groundwaters can be used in physically sustainable or unsustainable ways.
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Grant Ferguson, Mark O. Cuthbert, K. M. Befus, Tom Gleeson, and Jennifer C. McIntosh. 2020. Rethinking groundwater age. Nature Geoscience, Volume 13, Issue 9, 13(9):592–594.
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