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 sustainability, ...

Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer recharge volume during the past year exceeded the Idaho Water Resource Board’s annual target by more than 50%. Factors included more water left in reservoirs following the ...

A three-dimensional view of the landscape and its underlying aquifers in part of the lower Umatilla basin. Graphic of the Umatilla County Critical Groundwater Task Force Irrigated farms that use ...

Local officials are now knee-deep in a $125,000 study to discover the underground shape of the dwindling West Plains aquifer. The vast aquifer is being depleted because it can’t naturally recharge ...

Water in part of Idaho’s Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer travels much faster than previously thought, according to scientists. State Department of Water Resources hydrogeologist Neal Farmer and Idaho ...