In July, the Gainesville City Commission voted to give $2.7 million for a piping project by the St. Johns River Water Management District. Mayor Lauren Poe said the city was happy to participate.

Cherry Lake Nursery is leading the way in water conservation. Using technology, the production manager said they’ve cut water ...

Florida, famously known as the Sunshine State, might better be called the Water State: In addition to being surrounded by water on three sides and crossed by nearly 26,000 miles of rivers, the ...

Georgia will allow some farmers in the southwest part of the state to drill new irrigation wells into the Florida aquifer starting in 2025. The state will begin accepting applications for new ...

Crews at the New Wales Mosaic plant in Polk County, Florida are scrambling to stop contaminated and radioactive water from continuing to seep into the Florida Aquifer. Officials say a massive sinkhole ...

This year the environment is emerging as a top issue in both the primary and the general election. The Democrats have been debating who is closer to Big Sugar and a mall to be built by a Graham family ...

A sinkhole has opened up in Mulberry, Florida underneath a storage pond for wastewater from a fertilizer plant, draining an estimated 980 million liters (215 million gallons) of contaminated water ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — North Florida’s two water management districts are studying ways to restore and maintain groundwater levels with the use of reclaimed water or surface water from rivers as ...

Although it's not been permitted yet, an excavator started digging at the Crystal River sand mine site — and then became surrounded by so much water the operator had to swim for safety. (Photo via the ...

MULBERRY, Fla. -- Officials said a massive sinkhole in Florida has allowed millions of gallons of radioactive water to pour into one of the world's most productive aquifers. The sinkhole was found by ...

A bill awaiting the governor's signature would allow treated wastewater to be pumped into the state's aquifers. The goal is to help replenish the state's water supply, but environmentalists and health ...