Aquifers are the primary source of drinking water for up to two billion people. To avoid overexploitation, lengthy renewal periods of some aquifers must be taken into account. The lengthy ...

A map showing total water storage change in cubic ... used the data to examine how irrigation and climate influenced each aquifer’s water supply. Total water storage includes groundwater ...

The team of researchers was able to map the extent of the aquifer by relying on previous field work in the 1980s and 1990s during which scientists had drilled holes to measure temperatures deep ...

The American West is hungry for water, and scientists just found a previously unmapped aquifer three times the size of Lake Mead. The discovery came when researchers, studying drill holes left behind ...

That allowed them to map the volume of the aquifer. Previous estimates of water availability in the Cascades took the springs at face value, measuring river and stream discharge. Instead ...

"The Kansas Geological Survey earlier this month completed its annual campaign to measure the Ogallala Aquifer, which ...

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 ...

A massive aquifer is stored just beneath volcanic rocks at the crest of the central Oregon Cascades – possibly the largest ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Stampriet Transboundary Aquifer System, a vital freshwater resource in southern Africa, is threatened by mining activities. Uranium, petroleum, and rare ...