A recent satellite-based study has uncovered alarming declines in groundwater storage across High Mountain Asia (HMA), widely ...

If you stand at practically any point on Earth, there is water moving through the ground beneath your feet. Groundwater provides about half of the world’s population with drinking water and nearly ...

New research shows that persistently pumping groundwater has shifted Earth's axis. The reason is that we're moving all that water mass from under the continents to the oceans. Most groundwater ends up ...

With long-term declines in groundwater levels putting thousands of domestic wells at risk and causing the ground to sink in parts of the San Joaquin Valley, state regulators are moving forward with ...

Researchers from Princeton University and the University of Arizona have created a simulation that maps underground water on a continental scale. The result of three years' work studying groundwater ...

Corpus Christi officials are considering a second groundwater well field in San Patricio County as the city of Sinton ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sustainable solutions and innovation. It may be out of sight, but it should not be out of mind. Water hidden beneath the earth’s ...

You don’t have to dig deep to hit water in South Florida. In some places in Miami-Dade, a mere foot or two is all that stands between the dry ground and the water running through the porous rock below ...

Access to groundwater is crucial to life on Earth, but rising temperatures could render it undrinkable for 75 million people within the next 76 years. In a new study, researchers at the Karlsruhe ...

Much of California’s water supply is a hidden asset: Deep below the surface, rocks, gravel and sand store water like a sponge, in an underground zone called an aquifer. Managers for 21 ‘critically ...