Irrigation brought fat harvests to the plains. But the water is disappearing. Industrial agriculture on the Great Plains began in the 1950s when mechanized pumps and sprinkler irrigation systems ...

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 ...

Two recent developments figure to impact the tri-state aquifer. Located in Defiance, Fulton and Williams counties, as well as counties in southeast Michigan and northeast Indiana, the Michindoh ...

COOPERSVILLE, MI — A national waste disposal company wants to inject liquid waste deep underneath a shrinking aquifer that is tapped for drinking water in West Michigan. Republic Services is seeking ...