aquifers

The lesser-known threat from sea-level rise? Saltwater intrusion into Florida’s freshwater wells.

When it comes to sea-level rise, Miami is usually deemed ground zero. Time-lapse maps depict the creeping rise of blue,…

7 years ago

Scientists on Causes of High Radium Levels in Key Midwestern Aquifer

Oxygen levels, dissolved minerals among factors responsible for high concentrations of radium in untreated water from aquifer that underlies six…

7 years ago

USA Government Releases First Global Water Strategy

Report identifies water priorities in foreign policy. Photo: A girl fills jars with water in Rajasthan, India. Photo © J.…

7 years ago

Water under Colorado’s Eastern Plains running dry as farmers irrigate “great American desert”

WRAY — Colorado farmers who defied nature’s limits and nourished a pastoral paradise by irrigating drought-prone prairie are pushing ahead…

7 years ago

Did a huge Gillette water project frack-up rural wells?

Michael Cranston’s family has ranched in Carlile since 1904. The rolling pine- and spruce-dotted Black Hills make Carlile — a…

7 years ago