Groundwater is a critical resource in Southern California, where long-term drought and climate change place increasing pressure on local aquifers. Some regions, like the Hollywood Basin (a small ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Montana Technological University is highlighting the work of alumnus Daniel Buckley, a data scientist at the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, who utilizes 70 million rows of data ...

Groundwater depletion threatens water sources of the American food system, and the Central Valley (CV) is one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world and a keystone in the American ...

Woods Hole, Mass. (June 17, 2025) — During the last ice age, storms soaked the now-arid Southwestern U.S., while today’s rainy Pacific Northwest remained relatively dry. As global temperatures rose ...

New research based on satellite data shows the depletion of groundwater in the Colorado River Basin far exceeds losses from the river’s reservoirs. Scientists say overpumping is leading to alarmingly ...

With groundwater in parts of eastern Washington declining at an alarming rate, a new study confirms which areas are most vulnerable to the problem and could help set clearer goals for recovery efforts ...

The state’s aquifers gained an estimated 2.2 million acre-feet of groundwater in the 12 months that ended Sept. 30. The amount of groundwater replenishment was significant, but was less than the ...

State officials urged hydrogeologists and government personnel to maximize the use of field data for national groundwater mapping. A workshop emphasized data dissemination and aquifer mapping, with ...

As the Colorado River’s giant reservoirs have declined during the last two decades, even larger amounts of water have been pumped and drained from underground, according to new research based on data ...