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Earthquakes in Taiwan are linked to seasonal changes in water levels

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Earthquakes in Taiwan are linked to seasonal changes in water levels

Seismic activity in Taiwan happens more often during the dry season when the groundwater built up during monsoon season is depleted, leaving Earth’s crust more likely to rebound under stress

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Vibrations from a smartphone can help us spot unsafe drinking water

Technology

Vibrations from a smartphone can help us spot unsafe drinking water

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crop irrigation

Environment

Carbon-negative crops may mean water shortages for 4.5 billion people

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Parched soil

Environment

Nearly 700 million people could be living in extreme drought by 2100

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Water may be even more crucial to life than we thought

Life

Water may be even more crucial to life than we thought

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Indus basin

Environment

Groundwater that supports world food chain may become too salty to use

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meteorite

Space

Meteorites may have brought water to Earth in the recent past

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liquid droplets and man

Physics

Armoured liquid marbles connected together in a chain 1.7 metres long

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Huge reservoir of fresh water found beneath the sea off Hawaii

Environment

Huge reservoir of fresh water found beneath the sea off Hawaii

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San Francisco

Humans

Wealthy US cities struggle to provide running water for all residents

Growing levels of income equality in US cities are leaving some residents without running water – even in wealthy metropolitan areas including San Francisco

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Space

NASA confirms there is water on the moon that astronauts could use

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Environment

Colorado River drought can be predicted by warming in the ocean

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Technology

Water could be extracted from desert air using heat from sunlight

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Physics

Supercool experiment reveals water is actually two liquids in one

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