Friday the 13th was a lucky day this June for the southwest Iowa city of Avoca, pop. 1,700. Restaurants along Main Street had ...

A five-year study has found that the protective layer of clay above Memphis’ drinking water is “more like Swiss cheese,” with six known and 36 suspected breaches. Prior to the study, which ...

Groundwater is declining across Eastern Washington's complex, interconnected aquifer system, as people draw on it for irrigation, drinking and other uses at a pace that threatens its sustainability, ...

"As soon as that water’s gone, we don’t have another ice age to re-establish it," a retired hydrologist warns.

Safe yield, in which the region pumps no more groundwater than is recharged into the aquifer in a given year, is prescribed by the landmark 1980 Arizona Groundwater Management Act.

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The Great Infra-Cambrian Ice Age There is considerable geological evidence for an extensive glaciation some 600 million years ago.

Average annual, monthly and seasonal evaporation These maps show the amount of water which evaporates from an open pan, distributed across Australia.