Aquifers are the primary source of drinking water for up to two billion people. To avoid overexploitation, lengthy renewal periods of some aquifers must be taken into account. The lengthy ...

In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, we look at our global freshwater crisis. Specifically, the video ...

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 ...

The Assembly welcomed the conclusion of the work of the Commission on the law of transboundary aquifers, accepted the Commission’s recommendations and commended the draft articles to the ...

Yet the United States' access to water is slowly becoming scarcer. The country contains many underground aquifers that hydrate and irrigate most of the 48 contiguous states. The problem is that ...