A new study found that groundwater is rapidly declining—but there were also some bright spots on how it can be replenished. Circular irrigation for growing hay and alfalfa near Corcoran, California—a ...

If you stand at practically any point on Earth, there is water moving through the ground beneath your feet. Groundwater provides about half of the world's population with drinking water and nearly ...

For half the world's population, the water in their drinking glasses comes from below them. Groundwater also supplies 40% of global irrigation projects. Alarmingly, more than a third of the planet's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Savannah plans to shift how it will extract groundwater from the nearly 50 wells it operates, likely beginning this year. The city ...

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 ...

Officials in a small community reliant on groundwater have seen lowering water levels and diminishing water quality that coincide with “recent large-scale groundwater pumping in rural Nueces County,” ...

In 1997 Union County in southern Arkansas faced a serious crisis: its key water source, the Sparta Aquifer, was declining by as much as two meters per year. This underground reservoir of water trapped ...

Generally, when you hear “water use” and “sustainability,” you expect those words to be followed by some bad news. Humanity’s enduring ability to ignore the math of declining water supplies is almost ...