This story was originally published . Sign up for their newsletters. Guest Commentary written by Scott Hayman Scott Hayman is chair of the Indian Wells Valley Groundwater Authority. California is at a ...

The growth of cities between San Antonio and Austin, separated by 75 miles, is creating one massive metro region.

Lava flows, near mile-thick glaciers and ice age floods layered and carved up this landscape.

California’ s Central Valley- one of the nation’ s most critical agricultural regions and home to over 1.3 million people- is prone to flooding. The research, published June 4 in the Journal of Flood ...

The Des Moines area’s first-ever lawn watering ban helps Central Iowa Water Works keep up with nitrate removal to provide ...

The Trump administration is boosting a longtime political hot potato — pumping water from underneath the Mojave Desert.

A Central Arizona Project canal that ... By comparison, 3,200 people live in the McMullen Valley, which sits across La Paz, Yavapai, and Maricopa Counties and has lost nearly half of its aquifer ...

Water is critical for the region because the Central Valley is an agricultural powerhouse, producing one-fourth of the nation’s food, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

How California’s farmers can recharge the aquifers they’ve drained Agriculture requires a lot of water. In the drought-stricken Central Valley, researchers have found a win-win for growers.

Scientists have long recognized that the Sierras are a key water source for the Central Valley aquifer, but this new UC Riverside-led study is the first to quantify the groundwater contribution from ...

It isn't just snow melt and rain-fed streams reaching into the low-lying aquifer. There are aquifers in the Sierras that appear to be discharging into the Central Valley aquifer as well.