groundwater

New Tests Reveal 15 out of 15 of Indiana’s Coal Ash Ponds Are Leaking

Photo: Barbara Deardorff draws water from her tap in Wheatfield, Indiana. Dangerous chemicals from a nearby coal ash pond have…

6 years ago

Animation of Satellite Data Shows SoCal “Breathing” Water

Credit: Bryan Riel and Mark Simons Using an unprecedented number of satellite radar images, geophysicists at Caltech have tracked how…

6 years ago

California Groundwater Law Means Big Changes Above Ground, Too

The state’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act is likely to result in fallowing thousands of acres of farmland. Local governments are…

6 years ago

Farmers drawing groundwater from Ogallala Aquifer faster than nature replaces it

Every summer the U.S. Central Plains go dry, leading farmers to tap into groundwater to irrigate sorghum, soy, cotton, wheat…

6 years ago

Paper presents changes in Ogallala Aquifer groundwater quality

In a new paper published by the Texas Water Journal (TWJ), a group of researchers for the U.S. Department of…

6 years ago