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By Ben Hutchings

24 November 2015

A new study from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and the University of Florida in Gainesville shows that climate change poses a threat to the state’s water 도박resource바카라 룰s.

An estimated 632 million acre-feet of water could potentially be under threat across more than a fifth of Alabama’s land if the state is to avoid water shortages in the next 50 years.

The study looked at all possible impacts of climate change, including droughts, heat waves, flooding and other climatic trends. Although a number of other factors, including water flows in rivers, can play a role in the severity of future threats to land and water, the researchers found that rising seas and climate change are among the most likely to significantly affect water in the state.

The study’s results are a reminder of the profound role climate change will have on the region’s water resources as the United States and other nations grapple with the threat of sea level rise, desertification, drought, and other climatic problems related to climate change. Although water is key to living and growing healthy societies, an increasing share of the country’s land surfaces now are in the grip of desert and other natural conditions, threatening to reduce groundwater supplies.

The Alabama study includes research on the drought in Alabama, which began in 2010 and has been attributed in part to climate change. As a result of increased precipitation in the eastern part of the state, high water and temperature levels in many parts of the state have caused significant impacts on agriculture, including drought in many areas, the loss of groundwater supp청주출장샵lies, and the destruction of crops. In recent years, many water-stressed residents of the state have lost access to water sources and services such as sewer pipes, which has led to severe shortages.

“The climate is changing and the population is growing at a faster rate than expected so there is an increased danger of widespread climate extremes. Drought is especially a possibility with higher temperatures,” explained the study’s lead author Kevin Anderson, assistant professor of geology in the UA’s Alabama School of Geosciences, and assistant professor of hydrology and Earth system science. “The main problem is that the climate has already changed.”

The researchers found that high levels of precipitation across many parts of the state since 2005 have had a serious impact on the state’s groundwater supplies. As a result of higher temperatures and precipitation, some aquifers in the eastern part of the state have become dangerously depleted, resulting in a