South Carolina is blessed with abundant groundwater resources. Numerous transgressions and regressions of the Atlantic Ocean over millions of years have created a layer cake of sand, limestone and ...

Groundwater is responsible for about half of the water people use globally. It’s drying up. Hayes Kelman started noticing the family farm in... The world has a groundwater problem. Can we solve it?

It’s the ten-year birthday of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, known as SGMA. While the law doesn’t take full effect with balanced groundwater management until 2040, there is already much ...

Generally, when you hear “water use” and “sustainability,” you expect those words to be followed by some bad news. Humanity’s enduring ability to ignore the math of declining water supplies is almost ...

In 2014, Gov. Jerry Brown signed historic legislation establishing a framework for California to begin managing groundwater in an effort to curb widespread overpumping, which had sent aquifer levels ...

Constant policy reversals will create uncertainty for water planners, which in the long run could jeopardize Arizona's water future. Finding common ground and enacting durable water policies is ...

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced Wednesday she's suing a Saudi Arabian agribusiness for allegedly violating a public nuisance law, contending that its groundwater pumping ...

Addressing the groundwater problem could push the cleanup cost past $13 million. First it was contaminated soil. Now it's contaminated groundwater at the former Missouri Electric Works site in Cape ...

A judge, not lawmakers, could significantly alter how Arizona water law works. That is, if the case even goes anywhere. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is suing Fondomonte Arizona, the Saudi-owned ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Water gets pumped into a canal near Tranquillity. Overpumping of ground water for agriculture has led to land subsidence. (The ...