New research is showing that groundwater from the Colorado River Basin, or CRB, is depleting more quickly than most first ...

Deep below the surface of the ground in one of the driest parts of the country, there is a looming problem: The water is ...

The goal is to rapidly expand the areas where we store water -- not by building reservoirs, but by returning millions of ...

“The Colorado River Basin is losing groundwater at an alarming rate,” Karem Abdelmohsen, a postdoctoral researcher at Arizona ...

Understanding groundwater-surface water interactions is critical for decision-making of water quantity and quality. These interactions, however, can be highly heterogeneous in space and time. While ...

When we talk about California’s water, we often think of what we can see: a snowpack, reservoirs to hold water, and aqueducts to deliver water to communities throughout the state. There is ...

The Colorado River Basin lost an alarming amount of groundwater over the past 20 years, a new study found. Nearly 28 million acre-feet of water has been depleted from the region, nearly the volume of ...

Groundwater has helped much of the American West to become “marvelously productive,” he said, despite the region being a dry landscape where farmers can’t rely on rainfall and surface water ...

Vials containing PFAS samples sit in a tray, Wednesday, April 10, 2024, at a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lab in Cincinnati. State environmental officials are working to adopt groundwater ...

Many aquifers are connected to, and fed by, rivers and other surface water bodies, during the dry season. In the wet season, this system can be reversed with groundwater moving back into rivers and ...

The proposal updates priority substances and environmental quality standards in surface water and groundwater. The Council’s mandate sets a balance between keeping ambitious goals for the EU’s water ...