From California’s Central Valley to the croplands of Iran, groundwater depletion has accelerated over the last four decades across the world’s arid food-producing regions. In many parts of the western ...

The state’s Drought Monitoring Task Force today issued a drought warning notification for jurisdictions in Northern and south ...

Beneath our feet there is an invisible ocean. Within the cracks of rock slabs, sand, and soil, this water sinks, swells, and flows — sometimes just a few feet under the surface, sometimes 30,000 feet ...

(CNN) — Many parts of the world are experiencing a rapid depletion in the subterranean reserves of water that billions of people rely on for drinking, irrigation and other uses, according to new ...

In the space of a few weeks, judges in Idaho, Nevada and Montana have altered the landscape for conserving dwindling aquifers. By Christopher Flavelle Christopher Flavelle is a reporter on The Times’s ...

EL DORADO -- A groundwater report last month warned current pumping levels from Arkansas' primary aquifers are not sustainable in the long term, but groundwater levels at the Sparta aquifer in Union ...