The burgeoning City of West Palm Beach wants to tap the brackish Floridan Aquifer with 30 wells to supplement its vulnerable surface water supply in a move that would require building an expensive ...

LAKE WALES — The future of Polk County’s water supply stood at the center of a rock-strewn clearing: a thick, rust-colored pipe jutting from the earth, topped by a green fitting, with another pipe ...

On Oct. 22, representatives of engineering firm Thomas & Hutton and the Savannah Economic Development Authority (SEDA) presented a groundwater update to the Georgia House of Representatives' Resource ...

UGA researchers have found the Okefenokee is more closely tied to the vast aquifer beneath it, suggesting changes in or around the swamp could affect groundwater supplies.

Farmers in southwest Georgia will be able to apply for new or expanded permits to pump water from the Floridan Aquifer to irrigate their crops starting April 1. They’ve been cut off from the vast, ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — The Polk Regional Water Cooperative got a big boost Wednesday to ensure the county’s booming population has enough drinking water for decades to come. “Holy cow,” said Polk ...

There may be nearly 30 private deep-water wells within an area projected to be most impacted by the pumping of up to 6.6 million gallons per day from four newly approved utility-scale wells in Bulloch ...

The toxic chemical that has for years infiltrated the drinking water of residents in Lake Mary, Sanford and Seminole County was able to infect the Floridan Aquifer because of sinister properties that ...