Water rose fast along the Guadalupe River, causing 68 deaths as of Sunday afternoon. Local officials said they couldn’t have ...

Farmers are slowly drying up the nation’s largest underground source of fresh water. Hydraulic pumps and mechanized irrigation equipment gave America’s Great Plains farmers access to seemingly ...

The aquifer is slowly being pumped dry. Water wells, for instance, have dropped more than 61 meters (200 feet) in the Texas Panhandle. Though the trend line is downward, not all regions are equally ...

“The way to think of the deep aquifer is it’s like it has a lid on it,” Abrams said. “And so if you pour water on top of the lid, it’s not going to go through that lid and reach the aquifer.

DNA-based tracers to help researchers map aquifer for groundwater modeling (Aug. 7, 2018) -- Researchers from The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) are ...

SAN ANTONIO — An Edwards Aquifer board member has resigned following controversy over his social media posts. Don Laffere submitted his resignation, apologizing for offending people and stating ...

The Edwards Aquifer Authority, which regulates water in the region’s largest groundwater system, has declared Stage 5 restrictions, the most severe level of drought cutbacks for permit holders ...

Intensive study in Minjur to assess groundwater exploitation and combat seawater intrusion with Managed Aquifer Recharge ...

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 ...

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 Memphis Sand aquifer resides under eight states, with an area of about 7,000 square miles. Layers of sand, silt and clay filter and protect the water from most contaminants, making the ...

That allowed them to map the volume of the aquifer. In this Tuesday, April 24, 2018 photo, three central Oregon Cascade Mountain Range peaks, from left, South Sister, ...