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According to Pine Grove Recorder Sandra Hurst, the town is buying some water from the Wetzel County Public Service Department sourced from New Martinsville, but that is only a temporary option.
Climate change in West Virginia is an ongoing concern. Most of the state has warmed one-half to one degree Fahrenheit (0.28–0.56 °C) in the last century, and heavy rainstorms are becoming more frequent. [ 1 ]
New Martinsville is located at (39.657465, -80.859504 Doolin Run and Fishing Creek are located downstream nearby, just south of town. [8] [9]According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.71 square miles (7.02 km 2), of which 2.67 square miles (6.92 km 2) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km 2) is water.
Since the middle of the 20th century, human-caused climate change has included observable changes in the global water cycle. [7]: 85 The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report in 2021 predicted that these changes will continue to grow significantly at the global and regional level. [7]: 85
Global map of low and declining oxygen levels in the open ocean and coastal waters. The map indicates coastal sites where anthropogenic nutrients have resulted in oxygen declines to less than 2 mg L –1 (red dots), as well as ocean oxygen minimum zones at 300 metres (blue shaded regions). [55]
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Wetzel County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,442. [1] Its county seat is New Martinsville. [2] The county, founded in 1846, is named for Lewis Wetzel, a famous frontiersman and Indian fighter. [3]
[25] [26] Due to global warming, the ice sheet is melting at an accelerating rate, adding almost 1 mm to global sea levels every year. [27] Around half of the ice loss occurs via surface melting, and the remainder occurs at the base of the ice sheet where it touches the sea, by calving (breaking off) icebergs from its margins.