It’s easy to look at the “bathtub ring” at Lake Mead and realize we’ve got a problem. The bleached-white cliff walls show us how far water levels have declined — more than 100 feet from the ...

FILE - A Samburu man gives cows water in Kom village, Samburu County, Kenya, Oct. 15, 2022. The groundwater that supplies farms, homes, industries and cities is being depleted across the world, and in ...

Irrigation equipment seen in a Washington state crop field in 2019. (Photo courtesy of Washington Department of Ecology) With groundwater in parts of eastern Washington declining at an alarming rate, ...

Arizona's water authority wants to place groundwater rules in a basin where Saudi-owned Fondomonte grows thousands of acres ...

The Times asked all 50 states how they manage groundwater. The answers show why the country’s aquifers are in trouble. TEXAS MISSOURI VERMONT Some farmers can claim a tax deduction for pumping.

Record snowfall and rainfall this year, with tropical storm Hilary providing the latest blast, have brought major challenges to California but also an important opportunity for the managed recharge of ...

In an age when sustainable water sources are paramount, the IAEA has unveiled an ambitious strategy to delve deeper into groundwater research. The Agency's new coordinated research project (CRP) on ...

The state’s aquifers gained an estimated 2.2 million acre-feet of groundwater in the 12 months that ended Sept. 30. The amount of groundwater replenishment was significant, but was less than the ...

RENO – Opponents of the nation's largest lithium mine under construction want federal officials to investigate whether the project in Humboldt County already has caused a drop in groundwater levels ...

The Kings River pyrg is being considered for threatened or endangered species status, and the mine site at Thacker Pass in Northern Nevada is the only place in the world where the snails live.