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3-10: Impact of Global Change on Water Resources and Water Use

Short Summaries of Recent Research

• Mountain Snowpack Melting Earlier in the Western US
  
  
• Changes in Global Water Cycle
  
  
• Antarctic Ice Accelerating Toward the Sea
  
  
• Climate Change in the Western US Leads to Less Snow and Earlier Snowmelt
  
  
• Greenland Ice Sheet Meltdown Underway.
  
  
• Extreme Rainfall and Flood Risk in Europe
  
  
• Water Contamination by Medical Drugs
  
  
• Global Water Crisis Increases
  
  
• More Flooding in a Drier Climate
  
  
• State by State Estimates of Climate Change Impacts
  
  

Websites

• Creeping Dead Zones
  
  
• Scientists Find Climate Change is Major Factor in Drought's Growing Reach
  
  
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  
  
• Domestic Water Consumption Calculator
  
  
• Global freshwater stress
  
  
• Freshwater stress: current population at risk
  
  
• CIESIN Thematic Guides: Freshwater Resources.
  
  
• National Climatic Data Center
  
  
• Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment(GEWEX) Home Page
  
  
• USGS Water Resources Information
  
  
• Global Change on Water Resources
  
  

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