Oregon cities have tight controls over water consumption. In rural areas, there's little oversight on excessive consumption ...

Tens of thousands of homes in southeastern Colorado draw water from private wells. But the state doesn't manage residential ...

An official from Utah, during a Colorado River conference at CU Boulder last month, framed the consideration as a “divorce” ...

For Star subscribers: A group has turned in petition signatures to force a vote on bringing state regulation of groundwater pumping to the Willcox Basin southeast of Tucson, where agriculture ...

Aker BP drilled a dry well on the Rondeslottet prospect in production license (PL) 1005 in the Norwegian Sea about 80 km north of Ormen Lange field and 175 km northwest of Kristiansund. Wildcat ...

SS-2H ST1 is another foundation well, that demonstrates the Beetaloo Basin has characteristics similar to wells drilled across the Marcellus dry gas area.

SS-2H ST1 is another foundation well, that demonstrates the Beetaloo Basin has characteristics similar to wells drilled across the Marcellus dry gas area.

The Colorado River Basin Has Lost Enough Groundwater Alone To Fill Lake Mead Groundwater is running out at 2.4 times the speed of surface water.

Some residents have been left with dry wells as water levels have dropped. In places, collapsing aquifers have caused the land to sink, creating fissures in the ground that have damaged roads.

As the Colorado River’s reservoirs have declined, even larger amounts of groundwater have been drained from aquifers. Using satellite data, scientists have estimated the vast water losses.

Researchers estimate 1 in 30 wells have gone dry across the West, and many of the dry wells are in farming communities.

What a difference a month makes. The forecast for how much water will flow this year into Lake Powell, a bellwether reservoir on the Colorado River, was already meager. Now, after a dry April, it’s ...