Farmers are emptying some of the world's most important aquifers faster than rainfall can replenish them, which means less water for everyone. This map from the journal Nature shows where ...

Map: Here’s where the world is running out of groundwater. This moment demands more than headlines. ... The 16 major aquifers in blue, by contrast, gained water during that period.

Now, for the first time, a high-resolution map shows where underground aquifers store vast amounts of water. The map of “blue gold” (pdf format, 4 MB) is the result of nearly a decade of ...

Project will map counties' aquifer water BY SHAJIA AHMAD. Updated March 10, 2010 12:07 AM.

The study, published this week in the journal Water Resources Research, used 11 years of satellite data to measure water depletion. Eight aquifers, primarily in Asia and Africa, were qualified as ...

Scientists map huge undersea fresh-water aquifer off U.S. Northeast. ScienceDaily . Retrieved April 23, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 06 / 190621140341.htm ...

The aquifer is slowly being pumped dry. Water wells, for instance, have dropped more than 61 meters (200 feet) in the Texas Panhandle. Though the trend line is downward, not all regions are equally ...

As a natural water resource, it’s vulnerable to contamination from storm water runoff, leaking septic tanks and municipal waste. When a contamination occurs, it’s vital to detect the source quickly, ...

“The way to think of the deep aquifer is it’s like it has a lid on it,” Abrams said. “And so if you pour water on top of the lid, it’s not going to go through that lid and reach the aquifer.

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Around 300 feet below the ground sits a different water resource: an aquifer. The underground water feeds the river and fills taps across Boone County – stretching across the stateline.

This map shows all nine major aquifers in Texas. The Carrizo-Wilcox aquifer is shown in red. Credit: Texas Water Development Board / Todd Wiseman ...