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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MILANO — Across the street from the small wooden building that houses the Post Oak Savannah Groundwater Conservation District, two blue-painted wells poke up from the earth. On a recent evening, Bobby ...

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 ...