AWRA PPT: ‘Storing Accelerated Glacial Meltwater with Managed Aquifer Recharge’.
This PPT is an expanded version of one presented earlier and the one presented at the AWRA Climate Change Conference.
It includes information on the Yakima Basin Project.
These glaciers provide humanity and ecosystems with ‘free storage’ of freshwater and parcel out water to maintain and replenish freshwater supplies.
During the warm season, glacial meltwater nourishes lower‐elevation ecosystems and human settlements alike.
However, the specter of global warming suggests that these glaciers will melt completely, some relatively quickly, thus eliminating them as a reliable, perennial source of freshwater with potentially disastrous effects for lower elevations.
The recently-funded Yakima Basin MAR project is discussed.
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"The climate system is an angry beast, and we are poking it with sticks."
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