Over 2.5 billion people depend on aquifers for fresh water, but rising seas and climate change are pushing saltwater into ...

A synthesis of groundwater ages in aquifers in the United States indicates that groundwater residence times that are greater than 11,000 years are common 11. Overexploitation of such slowly ...

Yet the United States' access to water is slowly becoming scarcer. The country contains many underground aquifers that hydrate and irrigate most of the 48 contiguous states. The problem is that ...

Seawater will infiltrate underground freshwater supplies in about three of every four coastal areas around the world by the ...

High Plains Aquifer Explore the aquifer further ... a $20-billion-a-year industry that grows nearly one-fifth of the United States’ wheat, corn, and beef cattle. It’s also a place facing ...

Across New Jersey, reservoir levels are dropping fast, but other, less noticeable water supplies are also shrinking. Deep ...

Tuesday’s announcement by the City and County (C&C) of Honolulu of a proposed landfill site over one of Oahu’s precious ...

At its sixty-sixth session, the General Assembly further encouraged the States concerned ... transboundary aquifers; encouraged the International Hydrological Programme of the United Nations ...

Groundwater pumping has been causing the land to sink at a record pace in California's San Joaquin Valley. New research suggests ways of addressing the problem.

For years, irrigators in Kansas have drained more from the aquifer than rainfall can replace. Although the water source stretches across several states it moves very very slowly. As a result ...

Others don't see any response at all to the drought." As of Thursday: The aquifer under the Lakehurst side of the Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst was 29 feet below the surface, about a foot and a ...