As communities across the Inland Northwest face increasing drought, population growth, and changing hydrologic conditions, ...

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 ...

MOSCOW, Kan. — Brownie Wilson pulls off a remote dirt road right through a steep ditch and onto a farmer’s field. He hops out of his white Silverado pickup, mud covering nearly all of it except the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...