Think of a dry well as a massive, cylindrical storage container—or like a large garbage can—that collects water as it spills into the ground. These containers can hold up to hundreds of ...

Africa and Latin America – so much water is pumped from the ground that aquifers are being rapidly depleted and wells are going dry. Groundwater is disappearing beneath cornfields in Kansas ...

more rural communities are losing access to groundwater as heavy pumping depletes underground aquifers that aren’t being replenished by rain and snow. More than 1,200 wells have run dry this ...

“We’re finding that in dry places where a large portion of ... which helped take the strain off of underground wells. Thanks to those reforms, El Dorado and its surrounding county stand ...

Texas property owners can use nearly as much water under their land as they want. That’s unlikely to change even as the state ...

When that ground sinks, it can damage houses ... Water levels started dropping fast about a decade ago, her neighbors' well went dry, and her own family decided to make changes in their lifestyle ...

TOMBSTONE TERRITORY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A community that has suffered years of unsafe well water and dry taps will celebrate breaking ground on a long-awaited project to connect residents to ...

“The well guys and I have never seen anything ... where officials had to ensure they were replenishing underground aquifers and not pumping them dry. The laws governing the so-called active ...

“It’s so dry I think it’s going out just as fast as we’re putting it in. So, we’re watering the ground around us as well, trying to get water into our house which is a little frustrating ...