BAXTER — Reports over the early summer pointed to water demand stressing Baxter’s wells, but the city noted its supply of water wasn’t the issue for current or future demand. “First and foremost, ...

How water rights are granted and managed in the United States has always been a challenge. Unlike land grants, which are finite areas, water knows no boundaries and flows freely. How water is ...

DUNNIGAN, Calif. — As storms have drenched Northern California, water diverted from the swollen Sacramento River has been flowing from a canal and pouring onto 200 acres of farmland. For more than a ...

While North Mankato has raised concerns about the future of the Mount Simon aquifer, neighboring Mankato has historically implemented strategies to reduce water use and preserve local and regional ...

TWIN FALLS, Idaho—Along the banks of the Snake River, below the Magic Valley’s fields of barley, wheat and corn, groundwater from a massive aquifer springs from steep, dark rock and crashes down the ...

A fissure opened near a home in Chandler Heights, Arizona, after heavy summer rains in 2007. Irrigation in California’s Central Valley. Several months ago, the Arizona Geological Survey’s phones ...

Groundwater records from the last ice age indicate that aquifers in the U.S. Southwest are more sensitive to global warming than aquifers in the Pacific Northwest. When you purchase through links on ...