Jan. 18—Worldwide, natural resource agencies and officials have counted the number of shared groundwater aquifers flowing beneath the U.S.-Mexico border at 11, a Texas A&M AgriLife press release ...

A map showing total water storage change in cubic kilometers for 14 major aquifers over 15 years based on satellite data. A study led by The University of Texas at Austin used the data to examine how ...

Farmers are slowly drying up the nation’s largest underground source of fresh water. Hydraulic pumps and mechanized irrigation equipment gave America’s Great Plains farmers access to seemingly ...

A helicopter towing a coil frame using electromagnetic technology will be flying over much of Ford, Iroquois and Vermilion counties to provide a better picture of what the Mahomet aquifer looks like.

Even in good years, farmers in the Midwest supplement rainfall with irrigation from the Ogallala Aquifer. The map below shows irrigated areas in blue; the darker the color, the heavier the irrigation.

This map is disturbing, once you understand it. It's a new attempt to visualize an old problem — the shrinking of underground water reserves, in most cases because farmers are pumping out water to ...

WESTFIELD, Mass. (The Westfield News) – For all that’s been said about the Barnes Aquifer, there hasn’t been a lot of explanation about what it really is. The aquifer has come up in countless ...

Click the image below to launch an interactive Google Fusion Tables map that shows data on water withdrawals by county in Texas and Kansas from 1985 to 2005. Click the buttons at the top to choose ...

“A relatively modest jog around the Sandhills”—that’s how one TransCanada executive describes the Keystone XL oil pipeline’s new route through Nebraska, which is expected to be released in the next ...