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Less snow can negatively affect water supplies by reducing meltwater from snowpack, especially in the Mountain West.
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Matt Stiles, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
And what surprised me most was a finding that groundwater depletion now contributes even more to sea level rise than does the meltwater from ice on Greenland or Antarctica.
—Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Water is rapidly replacing ice along the coastal plain of southeastern Alaska, where glaciers are thinning and retreating, with meltwater forming lakes off of their fronts, NASA says.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
The dunes were once beach ridges from when Lake Michigan’s meltwater reached farther inland.
—Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
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Matt Stiles, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
And what surprised me most was a finding that groundwater depletion now contributes even more to sea level rise than does the meltwater from ice on Greenland or Antarctica.
—Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Water is rapidly replacing ice along the coastal plain of southeastern Alaska, where glaciers are thinning and retreating, with meltwater forming lakes off of their fronts, NASA says.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
The dunes were once beach ridges from when Lake Michigan’s meltwater reached farther inland.
—Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
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“Meltwater.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meltwater. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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meltwater
noun
melt·wa·ter
ˈmelt-ˌwȯt-ər 
-ˌwät-
: water that comes from the melting of ice and snow
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