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I’m pretty sure I learned about aquifers in a middle school classroom during a science unit on the water cycle. But, like most people, I’ve entirely forgotten what I learned or didn't pay close ...

Concerns are mounting over a proposed wastewater treatment plant at the Guajolote Ranch development in northwest Bexar County ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped groundwater variables nationally to understand which aquifers are most vulnerable to contamination from orphan wells. Oil and gas wells with no active owner ...

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Researchers have long known there was some kind of aquifer in the Cascade Mountains that feeds rivers like the McKenzie and the Deschutes. But they never knew just how big it might be — until now, ...

A new monitoring model combining satellite images with artificial intelligence can identify variations in the volume of Brazilian aquifers. The Urucuia, one of the largest aquifers in the Cerrado ...

The world’s precious stash of subterranean freshwater is shrinking — and in nearly a third of aquifers, that loss has been speeding up in the last couple of decades, researchers report in the Jan. 25 ...

A center pivot irrigation sprinkler sprays water onto crops in Finney County. Center pivot irrigation is a popular irrigation method in Kansas, but it applies water at a high rate. People in the ...

This summer scientists drilled deep below the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of northeastern US and tapped into a huge, mysterious reservoir of freshwater — what they discovered could have big ...

The Idaho Water Resource Board plans to start annual Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer recharge operations Oct. 18. The board since ...