How it works Aquifers are geologic formations that hold water underground. Some of them — like the Edwards Aquifer, which provides more than half of San Antonio’s water supply — are made up of ...

One-quarter of the world’s population is currently water-stressed, using up almost their entire fresh water supply each year. The UN predicts that by 2030, this will climb to two-thirds of the ...

The Edwards Aquifer Authority just implemented Stage 4 drought restrictions. That means the water level in the aquifer dropped enough that the agency decided to cut down on the amount of water that ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Marshfield board fervently against a proposed 56-unit apartment complex off Ferry Street has hired a firm to study the development’s potential impact on the aquifer it would be built on. The ...