The 29 wells Landon Friemel draws from to irrigate 5,000 acres of land have been slowly depleting over his years of farming in the Texas panhandle, increasingly limiting what his farm can produce.

The world’s groundwater aquifers are taking a beating. Decades of unrestrained pumping by thirsty farms and fast-growing cities have drained these underground rock beds, which hold more than 95 ...

Envision the global water crisis. You, like many, might picture a parched stream, a dried lake bed, a fallow field. Now try to visualize the ground under your feet and the freshwater stored in between ...

A center-pivot irrigation system waters a cornfield near Adams, Nebraska, about 45 minutes south of Lincoln. A new Husker-led study shows how the depletion of groundwater — the same that many farmers ...

A company drills a well in a pistachio orchard near Terra Bella, Calif., in 2021. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) From California's Central Valley to the croplands of Iran, groundwater depletion has ...

LIBERAL, Kan. (KSNW) – The Ogallala Aquifer Summit is set for March 18-19 in Liberal at the Seward County Fairgrounds. It will be the third time it has been held since 2018. The Ogallala is a vast ...

Scientists have discovered that the pace of groundwater depletion in California’s Central Valley has accelerated dramatically during the drought as heavy agricultural pumping has drawn down aquifer ...

Brownie Wilson of the Kansas Geological Survey uses a metal measuring tape to determine the depth of the aquifer's water level in western Kansas. Statewide aquifer levels dropped by nearly two feet ...

Heavy pumping from wells has led to significant declines in groundwater levels in the Coachella Valley, even as water agencies have piped large quantities of imported water to the desert. What can be ...

Aquifers are being depleted by irrigation. Reservoirs are filling with sediment. Fertilizer runoff is contaminating water and feeding toxic algae. Kansas water experts provided lawmakers a sobering ...

Three decades of data have informed a new Nebraska-led study that shows how the depletion of groundwater -- the same that many farmers rely on for irrigation -- can threaten food production amid ...

Three decades of data have informed a new Nebraska-led study that shows how the depletion of groundwater—the same that many farmers rely on for irrigation—can threaten food production amid drought and ...