As a natural water resource, it’s vulnerable to contamination from storm water runoff, leaking septic tanks and municipal waste. When a contamination occurs, it’s vital to detect the source quickly, ...

The aquifer is slowly being pumped dry. Water wells, for instance, have dropped more than 61 meters (200 feet) in the Texas Panhandle. Though the trend line is downward, not all regions are equally ...

Mexico City is sinking because of the amount of water being pumped out from beneath its foundations. One of the largest and most populous cities in the world, it was once a lush land of lakes. The ...

Six decades have passed, though, since grain growers and cattle producers began tapping the aquifer with such sustained thirst that they drew more water to the surface each year than flows in the ...

“The way to think of the deep aquifer is it’s like it has a lid on it,” Abrams said. “And so if you pour water on top of the lid, it’s not going to go through that lid and reach the aquifer.

Around 300 feet below the ground sits a different water resource: an aquifer. The underground water feeds the river and fills taps across Boone County – stretching across the stateline.

For decades, San Antonio got 100% of its water from the Edwards Aquifer. In 1993, San Antonio began to work to decrease its dependence on the Edwards Aquifer system. Today, there are 15 supply ...

Saltwater is increasingly seeping into the aquifer that supplies drinking water to Long Island, a new study has found. Some drinking wells in western Long Island have been abandoned over the past ...

This water Ogallala Aquifer depletion map 'should haunt your dreams' "We're running out of water," said Burke Griggs, a Washburn University law professor and expert on Kansas water law.

Scientists recently released research showing where groundwater is most at risk of contamination by orphan wells.