MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Memphis aquifer is at risk. According to the latest study done by the University of Memphis, there are more breaches in the aquifer’s protective layer than originally thought. On ...

I’m pretty sure I learned about aquifers in a middle school classroom during a science unit on the water cycle. But, like most people, I’ve entirely forgotten what I learned or didn't pay close ...

Opinion: Anne Arundel County and much of Maryland has a serious water supply and chloride contamination problem, writes ...

Groundwater levels in the aquifer underneath East Baton Rouge Parish have been recovering for at least the past decade, and continuing salt water intrusion into that aquifer doesn't represent a crisis ...

PULLMAN, Wash. -- Groundwater is declining across Eastern Washington’s complex, interconnected aquifer system, as people draw on it for irrigation, drinking and other uses at a pace that threatens its ...

Scissors. Purple glue sticks. Paper designs to cut out and fold. Chris Lowry teaches advanced geology college courses at UB. But some of the tools he brings to class evoke the joy of grade school.

A push for big groundwater users to pay for independent metering on their wells and better determine how big a threat saltwater poses to the Baton Rouge's water supply has been tied up in a legal ...

Sinking land caused by intensive groundwater pumping in the San Joaquin Valley is releasing trapped arsenic — a known carcinogen — into aquifers that supply irrigation and drinking water for a million ...

Salt is inching its way into the groundwater under the coast. It's one long, slow seep into the freshwater supply in rainy South Carolina, a bounty that was once thought abundant. Saltwater intrusion ...

SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE. TY: FOR THE PAST YEAR, CALIFORNIA'S DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES HAVE BEEN TAKING MEASUREMENTS OF THERO GUNDWATER AQUIFERS. KCRA'S 3 METEOROLOGIST HEATHER ...