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

In landlocked Arizona, where the Colorado River crisis has put water use under a microscope, a new inland desert fish farm is ...

As the Colorado River’s reservoirs have declined, even larger amounts of groundwater have been drained from aquifers. Using ...

The Colorado River Basin has lost twice as much groundwater since 2003 as water taken out of its reservoirs, according to a ...

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 has ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

“The Colorado River Basin is losing groundwater at an alarming rate ... then it becomes an existential crisis.” The researchers used data from a pair of NASA satellites, called GRACE ...