Dear Earth Healers,

Eight years ago the EEH Network focused on healing of groundwater contamination at coal ash ponds (Newsletter #69) and in Karst limestone areas (Newsletter #70). Lately humanity's imbalanced relationship with groundwater has come to my attention as I read reports of wells running dry in drought-stricken Iraq, Iran and the Central Valley in California, to name a few locations. The map above shows groundwater storage trends for Earth's 37 largest aquifers showing depletion and replenishment in millimeters of water per year. Twenty-one aquifers have exceeded sustainability tipping points and are being depleted, and 13 of these are considered significantly distressed, threatening regional water security and resilience (see Richey et al., 2015 for the scientific paper the map is based on). As a hydrogeologist, my sense is that the situation is worse than indicated by the map above, which is based on satellite remote sensing data. For example, the bread basket of the High Plains in the United States relies heavily on the Ogallala aquifer for crop production (#17 on the map above). The map above shows the Ogallala aquifer to have a net recharge (light blue), but locally the aquifer is heavily overdrawn.    
 

The deep biosphere extends into the saturated zone of the continental and oceanic crusts to the depth at which the temperature exceeds the limit that microorganisms can endure, around 120 C (250 F) = depths of 5 km (3 mi) in continents and 10.5 km (6.5 mi) below the ocean surface.

An Energetic Perspective on Groundwater. Almost three years ago EEH Newsletter #97 focused on supporting humanity's collective awakening process through the waters of the Earth. That newsletter focused on Earth's surface waters. With a global focus on groundwater now, I have only just realized how profoundly the waters of the Earth serve as a unifying medium for all of life and the geology of the upper crust. Groundwater in the saturated zone fills the pore space of even the most slowly permeable geologic material, extending from near the Earth's surface in wetland soils to around 100 m/330 ft where the unsaturated zone is especially thick. As shown in the figure above, microbial life inhabits groundwater to depths of around 5 km (3 mi) in continental crust and 10.5 km (6.5 mi) below the ocean surface in oceanic crust. Groundwater magnificently connects biology and geology, just as the Upper Mantle provides unifying support from below.  

The mineral array above formed at the time of the full Moon on February 5. Major unstressed aquifers on the base map are marked by Lemurian stones from the west slope of the Teton Mountains, and stressed aquifers are marked by Peridot crystals that originated in the Upper Mantle  In the absence of human withdrawals groundwater recharge from precipitation and discharge to surface waters exist in dynamic equilibrium. In the array three crystalline grids provide energetic support for reestablishing a dynamic equilibrium in stressed aquifer. The crystalline grids are represented by Rose Quartzite from Gros Morne mountain in Newfoundland (upper left), Limestone from the west slope of the Tetons in Wyoming (upper right), and  Peridotite from the Tablelands in Newfoundland (bottom center). Below the mineral array on Windgather Mesa is surrounded by 18 crystal skulls that offer further energetic support for healing the imbalances in humanity's relationship to groundwater.

Healing of stressed aquifers requires both an acceleration of awakening of humanity's collective consciousness to the many ways we are out of balance with each other and Mother Earth and a collective change our behavior for the common good of all life on the planet. As note in EEH Newsletter #97 Healing energy can be transmitted through the pure waters of the Earth into the Human Heart Grid through resonances with the 60% of the human body that is made up of water. Again, I invite fellow Earth healers to join me in sending love into the Human Heart Grid through Mother Earth's groundwater and surface water.