{"id":188562,"date":"2024-05-03T02:23:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T07:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/nasas-new-global-accounting-of-earths-rivers-reveals-fingerprints-of-intense-water-use"},"modified":"2024-05-03T02:23:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T07:23:23","slug":"nasas-new-global-accounting-of-earths-rivers-reveals-fingerprints-of-intense-water-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/nasas-new-global-accounting-of-earths-rivers-reveals-fingerprints-of-intense-water-use","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s New Global Accounting of Earth\u2019s Rivers Reveals \u201cFingerprints\u201d of Intense Water Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-new-global-accounting-of-earths-rivers-reveals-fingerprints-of-intense-water-use.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The novel approach to estimating river water storage and discharge also identifies regions marked by \u2018fingerprints\u2019 of intense water use.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A study led by NASA researchers provides new estimates of how much water courses through Earth\u2019s rivers, the rates at which it\u2019s flowing into the ocean, and how much both of those figures have fluctuated over time \u2014 crucial information for understanding the planet\u2019s water cycle and managing its freshwater supplies. The results also highlight regions depleted by heavy water use, including the Colorado River basin in the United States, the Amazon basin in South America, and the Orange River basin in southern Africa.<\/p>\n<p>For the study, which was recently published in <em> <i>Nature Geoscience<\/i><\/em>, researchers at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California used a novel methodology that combines stream-gauge measurements with computer models of about 3 million river segments around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The novel approach to estimating river water storage and discharge also identifies regions marked by \u2018fingerprints\u2019 of intense water use. A study led by NASA researchers provides new estimates of how much water courses through Earth\u2019s rivers, the rates at which it\u2019s flowing into the ocean, and how much both of those figures have fluctuated [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}