The ruling comes as more companies are seeking to turn a profit on what has long been considered a vexing waste stream.

A team of geologists drilled through strange formations dotting the Great Salt Lake's drying playa, and were surprised by what they found.

The Appalachian Basin – which includes parts of eastern Ohio – is one of the areas where aquifers are most at risk.

The Kaweah subbasin is the second San Joaquin Valley region to successfully escape state intervention, managers learned today ...

California saw a bump in groundwater supplies last year, new data shows. While the increase is modest, it comes amid a ...

As the seven Colorado River Basin states haggle over the future of water allocations, authors of a new report on groundwater argue that equal attention should be paid to the water beneath our feet.

But despite being so important, the groundwater reserves of the Colorado River basin have also remained unfortunately invisible – both literally and, as a result, metaphorically.

THOUSAND PALMS, Calif. (KESQ) – New research is showing that groundwater from the Colorado River Basin, or CRB, is depleting more quickly than most first thought. Researchers from Arizona State ...

The amount of groundwater that has been pumped out of the Colorado River Basin since 2003 is enough to fill Lake Mead, researchers report in a study published earlier this week.

They estimated that annual groundwater losses in the Colorado River Basin have averaged more than 1.2 million acre-feet—about four times larger than the amount of water the Las Vegas area is ...

Researchers determined that basin-wide, groundwater storage has seen a 27.8 million acre-foot loss since 2003 — enough water to fill an empty Lake Mead to capacity.