A new study found that land use (agricultural or forested) and the season (wet or dry) significantly impact groundwater quality, but in different ways. Groundwater—water trapped beneath Earth's ...

For half the world's population, the water in their drinking glasses comes from below them. Groundwater also supplies 40% of global irrigation projects. Alarmingly, more than a third of the planet's ...

Where hidden water tables meet the Earth’s surface, life can thrive even in the driest locations. Offering refuge during times of drought, shallow groundwater aquifers act like water savings accounts ...

Team utilizes advanced statistical techniques to project the future groundwater depletion risk. Groundwater is literally the water found beneath the Earth's surface. It forms when precipitation such ...

Groundwater quality assessment in Kerala reveals concerning levels of nitrate and iron contamination, posing potential health risks.

When people think about disappearing water, the images that usually come to mind are melting glaciers or shrinking ice caps. But far from the spotlight, an even larger loss is happening quietly ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...

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 ...

Indigenous people have coexisted with Australia’s vast and ancient groundwater systems for thousands of generations. Their knowledge extends back through deep time, before our current climate and ...

Under your feet lies the world’s biggest reservoir. Groundwater makes up a whopping 97% of all usable freshwater. Where is it? In the voids between grains and cracks within rocks. We see it when it ...