“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.

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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 ...

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, ...

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.

If the aquifers are actively recharging, however slowly, they could represent a potential water resource. If not, they are an emergency fallback—still useful in a drought-stricken world.

The Gaza Strip’s only natural source of water is the Coastal Aquifer Basin, which runs along the eastern Mediterranean coast from the northern Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, through Gaza and into Israel.

The highly anticipated plan to stop carbon capture and sequestration near the Mahomet aquifer has arrived on Gov. JB Pritzker ...