Groundwater in many areas of the U.S. and across the globe is being depleted as pumping for drinking water and agriculture ...

Beneath the surface of virtually every major growing city, a slow-moving crisis is unfolding. Aquifers - the underground layers of rock and sediment that store and supply freshwater to billions of ...

For the first time, NIWA used several techniques to map and understand the Waiwhetu Aquifer. This is a reservoir of drinking water that lies beneath the Hutt Valley and Wellington Harbor, and it ...

Three decades of data have informed a new Nebraska-led study that shows how the depletion of groundwater -- the same that many farmers rely on for irrigation -- can threaten food production amid ...

A new study of the San Marcos River reveals that Edwards Aquifer stygobionts persist in the hyporheic zone far downstream of ...

Enbridge has faced a number of issues since the start of the reroute project for Line 5.

"This Sand Hill reservation sits on top of the aquifer that feeds our Weeki Wachee River." ...

Hazardous contaminants may have been dumped there, including petroleum-related compounds.

A stony outcropping of the sponge-like rock that makes up the Ogallala Aquifer is exposed in the hills high above Scott State Fishing Lake in Scott County, Kansas. The lake is spring-fed from water ...

Enbridge is responding to an aquifer breach on a $1 billion project to reroute its Line 5 oil and gas pipeline in northern Wisconsin. The breach occurred last week during installation of a new stretch ...

If you dive deep enough off America’s northeast coast you’ll find something surprising under the Atlantic Ocean: freshwater. A gigantic aquifer of mostly freshwater, hugging the coastline from New ...

The future of Oʻahu’s primary water source may be in jeopardy if current water withdrawal rules remain unchanged. According to University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers, the current sustainable yield ...