The Idaho Water Resource Board on Dec. 16 voted to approve 11 groundwater-to-surface-water irrigation conversion projects worth a combined $13.3 million. Reducing pressure on the Eastern Snake Plain ...

In August 2023, the New York Times published the results of a study it conducted using a dataset constructed from groundwater monitoring data from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and 28 state and ...

Groundwater is rapidly declining across the globe, often at accelerating rates. Writing in the journal Nature, UC Santa Barbara researchers present the largest assessment of groundwater levels around ...

Groundwater depletion threatens water sources of the American food system, and the Central Valley (CV) is one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world and a keystone in the American ...

In an interview for my podcast, longtime Albuquerque Journal columnist, author and University of New Mexico professor John Fleck told me that in writing stories about water, “If it bleeds, it leads.” ...

Beneath our feet there is an invisible ocean. Within the cracks of rock slabs, sand, and soil, this water sinks, swells, and flows — sometimes just a few feet under the surface, sometimes 30,000 feet ...

The aerial view looks west toward the the Patterson Reservoir and Patterson Pass-Alameda County Water Plant, located beside the South Bay Aqueduct, part of the California State Water Project in ...

Vials containing PFAS samples sit in a tray, Wednesday, April 10, 2024, at a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lab in Cincinnati. State environmental officials are working to adopt groundwater and ...

Droughts in California can cause the cost of surface water to more than triple, according to a recent economic study. Groundwater prices remain more stable than surface water prices during both wet ...

Every year in Sonoma County, steelhead trout and coho salmon return to spawn in creeks along the Russian River that are fed by groundwater. Environmental advocates have long urged the county to adopt ...