Nevada lawmakers are working to revive a bill that would require state water regulators to take a closer look at how geothermal operations impact groundwater during the permitting process. Farmers and ...

A well in a nondescript concrete building at Broadway Park on Cornell Avenue in Yakima taps hundreds of feet into the aquifer that lies below. The Gardner well stretches 1,300 feet under Yakima, or ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has taken a major step to stabilize water use in the state’s ...

PHOENIX — Officials in drought-stricken Arizona are moving to regulate groundwater use on the state's western edge, where wells have been running dry. The new rules allow for a management plan formed ...

Arizona is creating a new active management area in the Ranegras groundwater basin to more tightly monitor water use. The new rules require annual water use reports and conservation goals for ...

PEARCE, Ariz.—Nearly two years ago, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes held a town hall in this desert community, which is widely regarded as the epicenter of the state’s groundwater crisis. She ...

As leaders in New Mexico’s water community, we remain alarmed by our ongoing water crisis, particularly when it comes to groundwater. That’s why we’ve been working with the New Mexico Groundwater ...

Lush green fields of alfalfa spread across thousands of acres in a desert valley in western Arizona, where a dairy company from Saudi Arabia grows the thirsty crop by pulling up groundwater from ...

Farmers in Harney County have come to rely on an aquifer that has long been known to be in serious decline. Now, Oregon water regulators will make drastic changes to how much water they can draw from ...

Napa County will begin charging fees to groundwater users in the Napa Valley sub-basin in 2026 to help fund the county’s state-mandated groundwater agency. The fee structure varies by type of ...

Droughts in California can cause the cost of surface water to more than triple, according to a recent economic study. Groundwater prices remain more stable than surface water prices during both wet ...

The aerial view looks west toward the the Patterson Reservoir and Patterson Pass-Alameda County Water Plant, located beside the South Bay Aqueduct, part of the California State Water Project in ...