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

Massive ongoing groundwater extraction ... Nature Cities. The study, by researchers from Virginia Tech and several other U.S. universities, used satellite data to map out vertical land movements ...

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

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

The goal is to rapidly expand the areas where we store water -- not by building reservoirs, but by returning millions of ...

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

Known scientifically as land "subsidence," the most common cause of the sinking is "massive ongoing groundwater extraction ... of oil and gas, the study says. On the map, why do some cities ...

The new study looked at the 28 most populous cities in the U.S. and 25 of them are experiencing subsidence, or land sinking, ...

Satellite data revealed that Houston is the fastest-sinking city in the U.S., and that all of the other biggest cities are dropping in at least some areas. Researchers say groundwater extraction is ...

A map of locations with vulnerability to ... Ohio and Texas. A 2011 Ground Water Protection Council study found that orphan wells caused 41 groundwater contamination incidents in Ohio between ...