I was watching the lawn getting watered and was reminded of how much water goes into keeping things green - humans like green and plants and stuff.

There's Lexis and PubMed and (something for physics and chem which I can't remember the name of right now - help?) - is there one for geological (?) sciences?

With hotter and drier weather (well, climate, but it's too soon to *really* call it that) in some areas and bigger snowfalls (than usual) in others, is the shift in climate renewing areas that were abusing their ground water due to population growth/lack of conservation?

When I was in Iowa, almost all of the water is from wells and there was talk about how the water table was getting lower every year (ugh - I have no idea how Phoenix keeps from being suicidal regarding their future water supply).

I want to know if someone's already looked at how the weather/climate shift has affected the water supply future of various parts of the world or if some library time could get me into a cross-discipline publication...

I believe that would be the field of hydrology.