To create a map of aquifer changes around the world, the authors liaised with dozens of governments and compiled more than 1,300 different studies.

So in this clear and present threat to the world’s aquifers, we actually have opportunities—to make our cities greener, to keep coastal areas from sinking, and to renegotiate our fraught ...

Groundwater is declining across Eastern Washington's complex, interconnected aquifer system, as people draw on it for ...

Massive Aquifer Beneath Oregon’s Cascades Could Be the Largest in the World The hidden water reservoir is shockingly larger than previously thought—holding more than half the volume of Lake Tahoe.

One-quarter of the world’s population is currently water-stressed, using up almost their entire fresh water supply each year.The UN predicts that by 2030, this will climb to two-thirds of the ...

The aquifer in the Gila Bend Basin — where pumping isn’t regulated — fell faster from 2000 through 2020 than all but two others in the U.S. and all but 46 others among 1,693 groundwater ...