Permaculture Instructor Andrew Millison explains the various types of aquifers and strategies for recharging depleted water ...

Coastal aquifers, which lie at the interface between land and sea, are vital sources of freshwater for agriculture, industry and communities worldwide. Excessive groundwater abstraction can lower the ...

For half the world’s population, the water in their drinking glasses comes from below them. Groundwater also supplies 40% of global irrigation projects. Alarmingly, more than a third of the planet’s ...

Seawater will infiltrate underground freshwater supplies in about three of every four coastal areas around the world by the year 2100, according to a recent study led by researchers at NASA's Jet ...

Groundwater replenishing beneath temperate farmland fields may come from very recent rainfall, merely one to two weeks old, whereas the water actually taken up by crops is drawn from much older ...

Water is hard to come by on the Rocky Boy’s Reservation, and it has been for a long time. The Chippewa Cree tribe members who live on this reservation in north-central Montana get most of their water ...

The world’s precious stash of subterranean freshwater is shrinking — and in nearly a third of aquifers, that loss has been speeding up in the last couple of decades, researchers report in the Jan. 25 ...

Keith Schilling is state geologist and director of Iowa Geological Survey at the University of Iowa. A conversion of several factors, some natural and some self-imposed, is leading to recognition that ...