About a quarter of the United States’s irrigated cropland sits on top of the Ogallala Aquifer in the Great Plains. But water levels are dropping, and states are taking different approaches to ...

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Meteorologist Kristen Currie spoke with Mitchell Sodek with the Central Texas Groundwater Conservation District to discuss ...

Agriculture built up many of these High Plains towns. But as the Ogallala Aquifer dwindles, farmers are trying to maintain their sole water source. MOSCOW, Kan. — Brownie Wilson pulls off a remote ...

In the space of a few weeks, judges in Idaho, Nevada and Montana have altered the landscape for conserving dwindling aquifers. By Christopher Flavelle Christopher Flavelle is a reporter on The Times’s ...

There's a quiet crisis unfolding across a large swath of the United States, one that doesn't always make the front pages but reshapes daily life for tens of millions of people. It plays out in ...

As groundwater is lost, food prices could rise in the U.S.

Beneath the surface of nearly every inhabited continent, vast stores of freshwater have been accumulating for thousands, sometimes millions, of years. These underground reservoirs, known as aquifers, ...

The new technique will map the top of the aquifer, called the 'water table,' spanning areas as large as hundreds of kilometers using a radar mounted on a high-altitude aircraft. According to the ...

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 ...

ST. PAUL, Minn.—Nearly half a century ago, the U.S. Department of Energy launched a clean energy experiment beneath the University of Minnesota with a simple goal: storing hot water for months at a ...