The Ogallala Aquifer across the region has dropped about 325 billion gallons every year for at least the past four decades. To put that number into perspective, the roughly 1-foot annual drop in the ...

Brownie Wilson of the Kansas Geological Survey uses a metal measuring tape to determine the depth of the aquifer’s water level in western Kansas. Statewide aquifer levels dropped by nearly two feet ...

A team of glaciologists serendipitously found the aquifer while drilling in southeast Greenland in 2011 to study snow accumulation. Two of their ice cores were dripping water when the scientists ...

If you grew up in the Inland Northwest, chances are you learned about the massive underground Spokane Valley/Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer in your school days. It’s gained a sort of mythical status in the ...

Aquifer isn’t the answer to state’s water problems Dan Reidel’s May 18 article “Drought causes issues for almond growers” included a horribly inaccurate characterization of the region’s groundwater ...

On the northeast side of San Antonio, in a conserved area of Bexar County, Chuck Crawford lowers a massive measuring tape into a deep well. The tape plunges down for several moments, zipping past 50 ...

The most recently conducted aquifer vulnerability study consisted of DRASTIC and Pesticide DRASTIC (PDRASTIC) mapping for Grand Forks. Both methods use index values derived from key aquifer properties ...

Buried underneath compacted snow and ice in Greenland lies a large liquid water reservoir that has now been mapped by researchers using data from NASA's Operation IceBridge airborne campaign. A team ...