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Although aquifers are buried beneath layers of rock, they supply nearly 90 percent of the country’s water. Creating a data map of more than 80,000 wells, the Times discovered that nearly 40 percent of ...

Scientists using satellite data have found that a third of the world's largest aquifers — in places ranging from China and India to the United States — are being rapidly depleted and are seriously ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped groundwater variables nationally to understand which aquifers are most vulnerable to contamination from orphan wells. Oil and gas wells with no active owner ...

Groundwater is one of the most important resources on Earth. People use around 77 billion gallons of groundwater every day, nearly all of it originating in bodies of permeable rock known as aquifers.

Two new studies led by UC Irvine using data from NASA Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellites show that human consumption is rapidly draining some of its largest groundwater basins, yet ...

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More than 100 times the amount of water extracted from ground aquifers waits near shore but may prove difficult or damaging to extract In a new paper, hydrologists suggest at least part of the answer ...

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In ten years, the Colorado River Basin has lost the equivalent of two Lake Meads, the largest reservoir in the U.S., pictured here at dusk with Las Vegas in the background. PHOTOGRAPH BY PETER ESSICK, ...

Editor's note: This story was first published June 17. It was updated to include a link to the study. Scientists using satellite data have found that a third of the world's largest aquifers — in ...