The Ogallala Aquifer across the region has dropped about 325 billion gallons every year for at least the past four decades. To put that number into perspective, the roughly 1-foot annual drop in the ...

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 ...

The new technique will map the top of the aquifer, called the 'water table,' spanning areas as large as hundreds of kilometers using a radar mounted on a high-altitude aircraft. According to the ...

On the northeast side of San Antonio, in a conserved area of Bexar County, Chuck Crawford lowers a massive measuring tape into a deep well. The tape plunges down for several moments, zipping past 50 ...

Buried underneath compacted snow and ice in Greenland lies a large liquid water reservoir that has now been mapped by researchers using data from NASA's Operation IceBridge airborne campaign. A team ...

Despite having 50% of the land as forest area and receiving over 3,000 mm of annual rainfall, the tribal villages of Gaondongrim and Cotigao in Canacona taluka experience severe water scarcity in the ...

Aquifer isn’t the answer to state’s water problems Dan Reidel’s May 18 article “Drought causes issues for almond growers” included a horribly inaccurate characterization of the region’s groundwater ...