Groundwater supplies 40% of the world’s irrigation water, yet aquifer levels are falling faster than they are being ...

For half the world's population, the water in their drinking glasses comes from below them. Groundwater also supplies 40% of global irrigation projects. Alarmingly, more than a third of the planet's ...

Declining groundwater supplies are an issue for communities around the globe, but a UC Santa Barbara Professor's ...

Groundwater depletion is a growing concern for regions that need to provide water for growing cities and thirsty agriculture in a drying climate, but Las Vegas offers a case study for how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Aquifers are losing water at alarming rates, according to scientists. The Earth is losing ...

The Los Angeles area’s groundwater remained depleted even after a series of historic atmospheric rivers struck the region in 2023, a study has found. Record rainfall filled both shallow basins and ...

An ATV races along the dry bed of the Arkansas River at Dodge City, Kansas. Because of irrigation and other factors, the river has been dry since the late 1970s. (Max McCoy) In the summer of 1894, a ...

Weston McCary believes that preserving and conserving groundwater, particularly with the High Plains aquifer system, is a marathon, not a sprint. McCary, technology projects coordinator with the ...

(CN) — In just three months of 2023, atmospheric river storms dumped over 140% of California’s average annual precipitation, but it still wasn’t enough to fill Los Angeles’ deepest aquifers, ...

Wisconsin governments, state, county, and townships have done little or nothing to protect groundwater from being contaminated by nitrate and PFAS (also known as forever chemicals), and the quality in ...

As you fly over central and western Kansas, you’ll notice distinctive circles in the agricultural fields below. Some might interpret these patterns as evidence of extraterrestrial activity, but ...

Irrigators and other water users are advocating for alternative groundwater restrictions to be adopted in Oregon’s Harney basin rather than those proposed by state regulators. The coalition, which ...