Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Giordano Cipriani/Getty Images Discoveries of aquifers – underground earth formations that hold water – often create excitement ...

Rivers are shrinking and aquifers are falling, raising fears of “water bankruptcy” as billions experience increasing water ...

California’s drought has put the great Central Valley aquifer system under critical stress, but many of the world’s major groundwater basins are in far worse shape, a new satellite survey has found.

Groundwater is one of the most important resources on Earth. People use around 77 billion gallons of groundwater every day, nearly all of it originating in bodies of permeable rock known as aquifers.

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A single calculation, precipitation minus evapotranspiration, is reshaping how scientists understand the swing between flood and drought across global ecosystems. New research published in Nature ...

Scientists describe Gitchak nakana, the first aquifer-dwelling blind fish discovered in Northeast India’s groundwater ecosystems.

A blanket of bright green alfalfa spreads across western Arizona's McMullen Valley, ringed by rolling mountains and warmed by the hot desert sun. Matthew Hancock's family has used groundwater to grow ...

If Summit’s proposed CO2 pipeline is approved, the water used by ethanol plants on and off the route would be equal to the annual water use of 529,000 people — more than the population of the Cedar ...

This story is a part of Understanding Southern Colorado's Groundwater, an occasional series from KRCC about groundwater resources. Read more stories here. As more people move to parts of Southern ...

Board of Water Supply Manager and Chief Engineer Ernie Lau expressed his desire to protect Oahu’s drinking water during a news conference where Mayor Rick Blangiardi presented the city’s plan to open ...