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Oregon Cascades hide a huge buried aquifer

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Scientists have mapped the amount of water stored beneath volcanic rocks at the crest of the central Oregon Cascades.

They found an aquifer many times larger than previously estimated— at least 81 cubic kilometers.

That's almost three times the maximum capacity of Lake Mead , the currently overdrawn reservoir along the Colorado River that supplies water to California , Arizona and Nevada .

The finding has implications for the way scientists and policymakers think about water in the region.

While it's likely resilient to small year-to-year fluctuations, many years in a row of low rainfall or no snowpack would probably be a different story.

"This region has been handed a geological gift, but we really are only beginning to understand it," Grant said.

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