{"id":803,"date":"2009-10-19T11:57:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T02:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/?p=803"},"modified":"2009-10-19T11:57:06","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T02:27:06","slug":"groundwater-australias-next-water-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/2009\/10\/19\/groundwater-australias-next-water-frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"Fridays at the Library: Groundwater, Australia&#8217;s next water frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-809\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2009\/10\/windmill2.jpg\" alt=\"windmill2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Groundwater is often called the forgotten resource.<\/p>\n<p>It lies beneath our feet and supplies wells, bores, springs and flow to our rivers. One-third of the world\u2019s population is dependent on groundwater. As we continue to face droughts and national water shortages, we are increasingly turning to groundwater as a water supply. But it must be better understood and more effectively managed.<\/p>\n<p>This presentation will demonstrate how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/groundwater\/\">Flinders University<\/a> and the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.groundwater.com.au\/\"> National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training<\/a> are tackling some critical groundwater problems in the nation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig T. Simmons <\/strong>is Professor of Hydrogeology at Flinders University and Director of the new National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training (NCGRT). <strong>Adrian D. Werner<\/strong> is Associate Professor of Hydrogeology, Flinders University and chief investigator for two important NCGRT sub-programs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Noel Stockdale Room, Central Library, Flinders University<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday 6 November 2009, 3.30 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>All welcome &#8211; admission free &#8211; light refreshments. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig T. Simmons and Adrian Werner uncover the secrets of the water beneath our feet. Friday 6 November at 3.30pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-fridays-at-the-library","category-news"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}