Do Droughts Affect Groundwater Quality? A California Story - Livestream

Speaker: Zeno Levy, USGS Research Geologist 

• Groundwater is an important source of drinking water for millions of Californians, and billions worldwide.
• Conventional wisdom is groundwater quality is "slow" to respond to drought. 
• New study links rapid increases of agricultural contaminants in drinking-water wells to intensive pumping of California aquifers during drought. 
• Results highlight vulnerabilities of drinking-water resources to climate change in California and other drought-prone regions. 

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