The Groundwater Project

Groundwater: The Invisible Resource That Sustains Billions — And the Knowledge Gap That Threatens It

There is a global freshwater crisis. And one of its root causes is not scarcity, it's lack of understanding.

Globally, 2.2 billion people are without access to safe drinking water, while 4 billion experience severe water scarcity for at least a month each year. As the climate continues to change, groundwater will be key to building resilience. Yet outside the hydrogeology community, awareness of this vital resource remains critically low, and so does the human capacity to manage it sustainably.

That's why The Groundwater Project exists.

Founded in 2017 by Dr. John Cherry, recipient of the 2020 Stockholm Water Prize, The Groundwater Project is a Canadian-registered charitable nonprofit with a clear mission: to create and provide free, high-quality groundwater educational materials to the world.

Led by a small staff and over 1,000 volunteers, including authors, reviewers, editors, and translators from across the globe, the Project has already achieved remarkable reach:
📚 Over 3 million free book downloads
🌐 Readers in virtually every country
🗣️ Materials available in multiple languages
🎯 Free access for students, professionals, and decision-makers worldwide

But this work depends entirely on you.

The Groundwater Project operates solely through private donations. And there are three powerful ways to contribute:

🕐 Donate your time: Help close the groundwater knowledge gap by volunteering as a translator. If you speak a language other than English and care about groundwater, science, or education, we invite you to join us.

💰 Donate your money: Every contribution helps produce new books, expand translations, support the coordination team, and keep all materials free. Donations are tax-deductible in Canada and the USA. Donate here → https://lnkd.in/de9ShmQ

🔁 Donate your reach: Perhaps the simplest yet most powerful act: share this message. Share it with a colleague, a student, a policymaker, or your entire network. Each share is a seed that can grow into awareness, action, and change.

💧 Groundwater is invisible, but its importance is not. Knowledge is the first step to protection, and you can help spread it.

➡️ Learn more and get involved: gw-project.org
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New Book - Analytical Hydrogeology of Inland and Coastal Unconfined Dupuit-Type Aquifers by Romain Chesnaux. To download visit: https://gw-project.org/books/ To donate: https://gw-project.org/donate/

Book Summary: Analytical solutions still have a crucial role to play in hydrogeology on a global scale, and should be viewed as an equally powerful and complementary collaborator along with advanced numerical tools. In parallel with the most recent numerical modeling programs enriched by artificial intelligence learning models, analytical solutions using closed-form equations are still being developed and perfected. Analytical solutions are not only relevant for solving problems, but they can be useful for process understanding. They are still being used and perfected by hydrogeologists to solve groundwater problems and should always be considered an efficient tool available in the toolbox of hydrogeologists. This book focuses on compiling and presenting a series of analytical solutions for solving practical problems in unconfined Dupuit-type flow systems for both inland and coastal aquifers. These closed-form solutions can be used to improve knowledge of quantitative hydrogeology and to solve practical problems at an academic and professional level. Solving analytical solutions usually requires low-cost, low-tech, back-of-the-envelope calculations or a simple Excel spreadsheet. The book is composed of seven chapters providing solutions for solving groundwater flow, groundwater velocity and transit time, groundwater recharge, and groundwater volume equations in unconfined Dupuit-type aquifers. A specific application is proposed for assessing seawater intrusion and the impacts of climate change for different scenarios, specifically in Dupuit-type coastal and island aquifers. The book is intended for practitioners in hydrogeology, for undergraduate and graduate students in Earth sciences/hydrogeology or civil/environmental engineering, as well as for academic researchers.

🌍 Türkçe konuşan topluluğumuz için harika haberler!

We are excited to share the latest progress in making groundwater education more accessible to the Turkish-speaking community!

Thanks to the dedication of our volunteer translators, 4 books have now been fully translated into Turkish, with another 4 books in progress.
This is a meaningful step toward connecting knowledge, language, and people through open education.

But there's still work to do. We're inviting volunteers to help translate the remaining 61 books, so that readers across Turkey, Cyprus, and beyond can access this valuable resource.

If you're passionate about groundwater, science, or language, and want to support a global educational mission, we'd love to welcome you.
📩 Volunteer translator inquiries: [email protected]

Download the books for free at https://gw-project.org/books/

Together, we're building a more inclusive future for groundwater knowledge.