Deep below the surface of the ground in one of the driest parts of the country, there is a looming problem: The water is ...

Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, reports on new research showing that the Colorado River Basin has lost 27.8 million acre-feet of groundwater since 2003—an amount equal to ...

The research highlights the groundwater issues complicating the Colorado River's already strained water supply.

The Colorado River Basin’s groundwater supplies are dwindling, thanks to a combination of both natural events and human pumping activities, a new study has found. The critical Western system ...

As the Colorado River's giant reservoirs have declined during the last two decades, even larger amounts of water have been ...

Overuse and climate change are rapidly depleting groundwater throughout the region, but aquifers are not part of the ...

The Colorado River Basin lost an alarming amount of groundwater over the past 20 years, a new study found. Nearly 28 million acre-feet of water has been depleted from the region, nearly the volume of ...

New research from Arizona State University professors shows the Lower Colorado River Basin has lost as much groundwater as is ...

— Most of the total water losses occurred in the drier Lower Colorado River basin. It lost 20.7 million acre-feet of ...

“Groundwater is a crucial buffer ... then it becomes an existential crisis.” Much of the Colorado River’s water is used for agriculture. A new study shows 46% of the water that is ...

The study found groundwater tables in the Lower Colorado River basin, and Arizona in particular ... illuminate the magnitude of the groundwater crisis in the Southwest, which is particularly ...