A high-resolution groundwater map shows how underground water varies across the U.S., with new insights for agriculture and ...

A new study found that groundwater is rapidly declining—but there were also some bright spots on how it can be replenished. Circular irrigation for growing hay and alfalfa near Corcoran, California—a ...

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 ...

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 ...

After years of pervasive declines, groundwater levels rose significantly in much of California last year, boosted by historic wet weather and the state’s expanding efforts to replenish depleted ...

The city is exploring the potential for more groundwater wells. Leaders say it represents urgent need, while critics say it is evidence of dishonesty.

Groundwater, which accounts for 97 percent of global freshwater resources, is essential to human and economic development, but its contamination is more extensive and harmful than previously thought.

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 ...

Willcox is ground zero for Arizona’s groundwater crisis. The state’s settlement with Riverview, the company draining the town’s aquifer, requires it to fallow fields and compensate affected well ...