NGWA Director of Science and Technology William Alley, Ph.D., pictured at right, recently participated in a podcast discussing critical groundwater issues in the southwestern United States.
Alley was speaking on the Water Resources Podcast which interviews water resource experts and discusses challenges relating to climate, droughts, floods, and more. The podcast is hosted by Bridget Scanlon, Ph.D., of the University of Texas at Austin.
The episode featuring Alley, who also served as chief of the office of groundwater for nearly two decades at the U.S. Geological Survey, is titled “Groundwater Issues and Potential Solutions in the Southwest United States.”
In it, Alley and Scanlon discuss groundwater scarcity issues in Arizona and California, evolving approaches to groundwater governance, and proposed solutions through conjunctive management of surface water and groundwater, managed aquifer recharge, wastewater reuse, and desalination.
Leonard Konikow, Ph.D., the editor-in-chief of Groundwater®, also participated in a Water Resources Podcast this year. His episode is titled “Groundwater and Surface Water: A Single Resource,” and in it, he and Scanlon talk about the strong links between groundwater and surface water underscoring the need to manage both conjunctively.
Get more information on the Water Resources Podcast and listen to the episodes with Alley and Konikow.