Beneath the surface of virtually every major growing city, a slow-moving crisis is unfolding. Aquifers - the underground ...

A helicopter tows an AEM ring to scan groundwater basins. (photo: Department of Water Resources) The latest buzzword in California water policy is Flood-MAR, or flood-managed aquifer recharge. While ...

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Groundwater recharge in the Western US will change as the climate warms -- the dry southern regions will have less and the northern regions will have more, according to new research. The new study ...

A helicopter drags a hoop used to send and receive electromagnetic signals into the earth above Pine Flat Dam. The process is used to search for ancient river channels for better groundwater recharge.

A new study modeled shrub encroachment on a sloping landscape and reached a startling conclusion: Shrub encroachment on slopes can increase the amount of water that goes into groundwater storage. The ...

Groundwater recharge seems to be priority No. 1 in the San Joaquin Valley’s scramble toward sustainability. With water restrictions on the horizon, groundwater managers can’t build recharge sites fast ...

Central Sierra runoff delivered over 13.19 million acre/ft of snowmelt this past water year ending in September. That’s the arithmetic counting the snowmelt from the five major rivers from north to ...

India's annual groundwater recharge saw a slight increase in 2025, yet nearly a quarter of assessment units remain in stressed categories. This is due to declines in recharge in several states, ...