Tag: water
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“Thank you, congressman. Here at the USGS we follow the laws of nature, not the laws of man.”
Science journals Editor-in-Chief Dr Marcia McNutt discusses the Western Hemisphere-wide crisis brought on on massive drought. Dr McNutt concludes her editorial with: Surface- and groundwater are all part of one coupled system, responding on different time scales to changes in precipitation. Five years ago when I was director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), an…