Australia's Queensland state will ban carbon capture and storage in a giant aquifer that spans much of its territory, the state government said on Friday, after an outcry from farmers who said ...

Groundwater is declining across Eastern Washington's complex, interconnected aquifer system, as people draw on it for ...

Australia should prepare now for dry times ahead by "banking" water underground in giant aquifers, experts say. This is how that would work — and why it's so important to get right.

The project was funded through a $394,967 grant and will run from April 2020 to June 2022, creating 3D maps of the regions underground aquifers.

The Colorado River Basin lost an alarming amount of groundwater over the past 20 years, a new study found. Nearly 28 million acre-feet of water has been depleted from the region, nearly the volume ...

Learn more about the history of trading water in Australia’s three markets in this infographic. Australia boasts the world’s only large-scale system of water-rights trading, concentrated into three ...

NT Beetaloo Basin has enough gas to 'supply Australia for the next 400 years', company about to start drilling the region says The head of a company developing gas in a vast 28,000km-wide Northern ...

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.

The aquifer in the Gila Bend Basin — where pumping isn’t regulated — fell faster from 2000 through 2020 than all but two others in the U.S. and all but 46 others among 1,693 groundwater ...

Overuse and climate change are rapidly depleting groundwater throughout the region, but aquifers are not part of the negotiations among the seven basin states to cut back water use.

A bold plan for a thirsty region: Click to enlarge graphic Water allowed the Umatilla Basin to blossom, transforming a parched stretch of eastern Oregon into what one farmer calls the bread basket ...