South Africa is the 30th driest country in the world. Over 400 towns, especially in the western and central parts of the ...

Beneath the surface of nearly every inhabited continent, vast stores of freshwater have been accumulating for thousands, ...

A new paper in Science by Scott Jasechko of the University of California, Santa Barbara, examines documented cases of ...

Groundwater supplies 40% of the world’s irrigation water, yet aquifer levels are falling faster than they are being ...

For half the world's population, the water in their drinking glasses comes from below them. Groundwater also supplies 40% of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Giordano Cipriani/Getty Images Discoveries of aquifers – underground earth formations that hold water – often create excitement ...

Groundwater is one of the most important resources on Earth. People use around 77 billion gallons of groundwater every day, nearly all of it originating in bodies of permeable rock known as aquifers.

California’s drought has put the great Central Valley aquifer system under critical stress, but many of the world’s major groundwater basins are in far worse shape, a new satellite survey has found.

Drinking water sourced from newer groundwater or carbonate aquifers is linked to a significantly increased risk for Parkinson’s disease, a new study shows.

A blanket of bright green alfalfa spreads across western Arizona's McMullen Valley, ringed by rolling mountains and warmed by the hot desert sun. Matthew Hancock's family has used groundwater to grow ...