The Watering Hole

This website, OneWater, is premised on a belief that the availability of quality drinking water is not a “right” per se. Rather it is a privilege – a privilege of geographic location, local, state, and national governance, and a savvy public. The four projects that have been recently added to OneWater expand our knowledge about how the Plymouth Carver sole source aquifer does its job and provide a litmus test to its health.

Congratulations to David Boutt, Professor of Hydrogeology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and his co-authors at Amherst and University of Alaska for the groundbreaking study recently published in the journal Earth’s Future about the sustainability of water extraction associated with lithium mining in the Salar de Atacama, Chile where almost half the world's supply of lithium exists. The paper, Relic Groundwater and Prolonged Drought Confound Interpretations of Water Sustainability and Lithium Extraction in Arid Lands