Sustainable use of groundwater sources in response to water scarcity and increasing water demands at regional to global scales mitigates the unprecedented impacts of over drafted groundwater storage.

Groundwater constitutes a critical component of our water resources. Widespread groundwater level declines have occurred in the USA over recent decades, including in regions not typically considered ...

Despite rain, California is still in a drought. Scientists are banking water as a sunny day fund. Researchers apply rainwater to orchard when trees are dormant, so most water percolates into the ...

Mars was once a wet world. The geological record of the Red Planet shows evidence for water flowing on the surface – from river deltas to valleys carved by massive flash floods. But a new study shows ...

A Turlock orchard demonstrates on-farm recharge. (photo: California Natural Resources Agency) Farmers recharging their groundwater may be able to benefit from their banked supplies during periods of ...

Groundwater recharge basins collect excess runoff during heavy rains and allow the water to infiltrate into the soil and replenish the groundwater supply. Fisher’s lab conducted experiments at ...

For decades, a costly problem has been worsening beneath California’s San Joaquin Valley: the land has been sinking, driven by the chronic overpumping of groundwater. As agricultural wells have ...

DUNNIGAN, Calif. — As storms have drenched Northern California, water diverted from the swollen Sacramento River has been flowing from a canal and pouring onto 200 acres of farmland. For more than a ...

California has seen so much rain over the past few weeks that farm fields are inundated and normally dry creeks and drainage ditches have become torrents of water racing toward the ocean. Yet, most of ...