Environmentalists see signifficant risks to water resources if oil drilling is allowed in the Big Cypress area. Jonathan Milne/LightHawk A Florida-based oil company has applied for a state permit to ...
POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — The Polk Regional Water Cooperative got a big boost Wednesday to ensure the county’s booming population has enough drinking water for decades to come. “Holy cow,” said Polk ...
Deep in Earth's past, an icy landscape became a seascape as the ice melted and the oceans rose off what is now the northeastern United States. Nearly 50 years ago, a U.S. government ship searching for ...
Wells supply drinking water for about 120 million Americans and nourish farmlands from the Arizona desert to the High Plains. In areas where groundwater levels have fallen because of heavy pumping, ...
A National Geographic investigation has found that Permian Basin energy exploration could taint residential aquifers with pollutants—as well as Carlsbad Caverns and other cave systems. The Chihuahuan ...
One of the city's long-term water supply strategies as written in its water supply plan is to tap into an aquifer that lies far below Lubbock and the Ogallala Aquifer. It's called the Dockum Aquifer, ...
A landfill in Central Florida is drilling a deep well to inject runoff mixed with garbage into the ground.