(CN) — In just three months of 2023, atmospheric river storms dumped over 140% of California’s average annual precipitation, but it still wasn’t enough to fill Los Angeles’ deepest aquifers, ...

The LA fires are just one symptom of the growing ... In that context, the discovery of an unnamed aquifer holding an estimated 81 cubic kilometers (19.4 cubic miles) of water sounds like it ...

The rainstorms that drenched Southern California two years ago weren't enough to replenish deep underground aquifers that had been depleted by pumping over the last two decades, a new study has found.

Industrial agriculture on the Great Plains began in the 1950s when mechanized pumps and sprinkler irrigation systems allowed trillions of gallons of water to be pulled each year from the Ogallala ...

The well, wide enough to fall into, taps into the Ogallala aquifer, the immense underground freshwater basin that makes modern life possible in the dry states of Middle America. We have come to ...