New Groundwater Insights and Practical Advantages of Monitoring Pumping with Wellntel Systems

When studying groundwater, scientists and practitioners work hard to minimize the influence of pumping in their data in order to understand the resource in the purest way. However, as pressure from pumping on the resource increases, it is becoming more important to accurately account for groundwater pumping in any groundwater study. So when measuring in wells or regions where levels may be influenced by pumping activity, it is important to track well pumping events in addition to groundwater levels in order to see the complete groundwater picture. It is in these metadata, that researchers can better diagnose, analyze, or remove or evaluate human influences on groundwater and increase the utility of the study overall. Beyond the practical applications of monitoring pumping activity, calculating new metrics, such as pumping minutes at local, regional, and national scales leads to new insights about groundwater use and the water-energy nexus.