Brendan Moran, David Boutt, and colleagues recently published a study that leveraged a hydrological isotope tracer analysis to investigate connections between water movement, its age, and deposits of lithium in an extremely dry region in South America. They concluded that it is important to protect the various water conduits—streams, rivers, seeps in order to manage systems in the region and other similar environments around the world. See more in the PLOS Water paper and UMass news release.