Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Water gets pumped into a canal near Tranquillity. Overpumping of ground water for agriculture has led to land subsidence. (The ...

Groundwater is responsible for about half of the water people use globally. It’s drying up. Hayes Kelman started noticing the family farm in... The world has a groundwater problem. Can we solve it?

South Carolina is blessed with abundant groundwater resources. Numerous transgressions and regressions of the Atlantic Ocean over millions of years have created a layer cake of sand, limestone and ...

Generally, when you hear “water use” and “sustainability,” you expect those words to be followed by some bad news. Humanity’s enduring ability to ignore the math of declining water supplies is almost ...

In 2014, Gov. Jerry Brown signed historic legislation establishing a framework for California to begin managing groundwater in an effort to curb widespread overpumping, which had sent aquifer levels ...

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced Wednesday she's suing a Saudi Arabian agribusiness for allegedly violating a public nuisance law, contending that its groundwater pumping ...

It’s the ten-year birthday of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, known as SGMA. While the law doesn’t take full effect with balanced groundwater management until 2040, there is already much ...