A dry well, on the other hand, collects a large amount of water and slowly releases it back into the ground. Benjamin Hanley says: 'A dry well is an underground structure that collects water and ...

Many of America’s critical sources of underground water are in a state of rapid and accelerating decline, a new study has found. More than half of the aquifers in the United States (53 percent ...

FAIRMEAD, Calif. (AP) — As California's drought deepens, Elaine Moore’s family is running out of an increasingly precious resource: water. The Central Valley almond growers had two wells go ...

The effort has had some success. In 2023, San Joaquin Valley farmers sank 7.6 million acre-feet of water into the ground, compared to 6.5 million in 2017, another wet year, according to the Public ...

If a well goes dry on a small farm, under the bill that farm would be treated the same as a large corporation or a hedge fund when trying to replace the well, she said.

Saving what's left of the underground water used for large-scale farms in west Kansas Decades of large scale crop irrigation now means big water problems in drought-stricken areas like western Kansas.

More than 1,200 wells have run dry this year statewide, a nearly 50 percent increase over the same period last year, according to the California Department of Water Resources.

Another possible solution for dry wells is to consider getting a water tank. Water tanks can prevent water deliveries from getting soaked up by the dry ground. But they need to be stored indoors.

Homeowners’ wells are going dry in the critically overdrafted Paso Robles Groundwater Basin in San Luis Obispo County, California.

But underground, the state’s supply of water for drinking and irrigating crops remains depleted. ... Eight dry household wells were reported in the San Joaquin Valley in the last 30 days alone.