Deep below the surface of the ground in one of the driest parts of the country, there is a looming problem: The water 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 a Lake Mead’s worth of water in the last 20 years — and scientists say we’re passing a ...

The Colorado River basin has lost huge volumes of groundwater over the past two decades according to a new report from ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...