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Residential customers who use 20,000 gallons or more in a month are subject to a high-use surcharge.

Three proposed carbon injection wells in McLean County, Illinois sit close to the Mahomet Aquifer, which supplies drinking ...

Three decades of data have informed a new Nebraska-led study that shows how the depletion of groundwater -- the same that many farmers rely on for irrigation -- can threaten food production amid ...

The Ogallala aquifer turned the region into America's breadbasket. Now it, and a way of life, are being drained away.

From California’s Central Valley to the croplands of Iran, groundwater depletion has accelerated over the last four decades across the world’s arid food-producing regions. In many parts of the western ...

"That one month hasn’t made up for the 11 months prior deficit in rainfall." ...

As this hot and generally dry summer continues on, the Edwards Aquifer has dropped to its lowest level in nearly a decade. It’s no secret that we could use a pattern change that would transition to ...

A new technique using dissolved noble gas tracers sheds light on how water moves through an aquifer, with implications for water resources and their vulnerability to climate change. The Food and ...