Phys.org   April 15, 2024 Sea-level rise (SLR) is influencing coastal groundwater by both elevating the water table and shifting salinity profiles landward, making the subsurface increasingly corrosive. Low-lying coastal municipalities worldwide are vulnerable to an array of impacts spurred by these phenomena, which can occur decades before SLR-induced surface inundation. Damage is accumulating across a variety of infrastructure networks that extend partially and fully beneath the ground surface and it is largely overlooked as part of infrastructure management and planning. Researchers at the University of Hawaii provided an overview of SLR-influenced coastal groundwater and related processes that have the potential […]