The well, wide enough to fall into, taps into the Ogallala aquifer, the immense underground freshwater basin that makes modern life possible in the dry states of Middle America. We have come to ...

Aquifers are the primary source of drinking water for up to two billion people. To avoid overexploitation, lengthy renewal periods of some aquifers must be taken into account. The lengthy ...

Bernadette Wright, fellow remedial project manager at Wyckoff, explained that there are several distinct sediment layers in ...

Another 1.6 billion people, or almost one quarter of the world's population, face economic water shortage (where countries lack the necessary infrastructure to take water from rivers and aquifers).

The water to perform these miracles in the desert is pumped from far below the surface, from aquifers filled thousands of years ago, when the climate in Saudi Arabia was much wetter. Water in this ...

It is republished with permission. Sign up for their newsletter here. The aquifer from which Joliet, Illinois, sources its drinking water is likely going to run too dry to support the city by ...

The Aquifer Protection Permit for the Copper World mine southeast of Tucson is a done deal, now that permit opponents have chosen not to appeal the state’s approval. The Arizona Department of ...