For bedrock aquifers where groundwater exploration can be expensive, groundwater budgets can be created using existing geospatial and rock core data available at Iowa Geological Survey.

As groundwater gets pumped up, the emptied-out space can collapse under the weight of the rock and soil above it. Once that happens, the aquifer loses the ability to hold water, permanently ...

Aquifer recharge projects would be exempt from Oregon legislation that otherwise seeks to preclude new agricultural well applications in areas with depleted groundwater. The change is meant to ...

“Any ruling by the Court that in any manner destabilizes groundwater ownership rights could have dire consequences for Texans and the Texas economy,” wrote Texas Comptroller Susan Combs.

Groundwater loss has also reduced crop yields in some areas and caused the ground to subside in much of the country. A tunnel under Twin Falls, Idaho, that carries aquifer water.

Which makes it pretty alarming that groundwater levels are dropping across the globe, often at increasing rates, as new research in the journal Nature have now estimated the full scope of the ...

The push to use farmlands for managed aquifer recharge has been praised by experts who say it can help the state combat overuse and become more resilient as climate change unleashes more intense ...

And it’s disappearing.” California’s historic Sustainable Groundwater Management Act was passed in 2014 with the intent of curbing overpumping and stabilizing aquifer levels.

Advertisement Department of Water Resources aquifer surveys will help bolster groundwater supply The surveys are conducted using a helicopter that carries a special set of instruments.

A year after workers installing the Line 3 oil pipeline pierced an aquifer in northwestern Minnesota, Enbridge Energy has told state regulators it has stopped the uncontrolled flow of groundwater ...

The large Kankakee Aquifer sits below all of that development — the source of drinking water for the people of New Carlisle — and keeping contamination out of it will forever be a pressing issue.