The City of Fort Myers is advocating for new state guidelines that would allow treated wastewater to be injected into ...

Residents expressed concern about the possibility of water from an East Texas aquifer being sold elsewhere and the impact on ...

“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.

Researchers say holes in the clay that overlays the Memphis aquifer could have let pollutants from as early as the 1940s into the groundwater.

And the aquifer system now, 1956 was a pretty significant year in terms of low rainfall. It had very low rainfall across the region. It's unlikely that we'll have a similar amount of low rainfall, ...

They all assume the aquifer is filtered through layers of sand and gravel. "It assumes the aquifer is a sandbox," said Todd Kincaid, a geohydrologist critical of the state's computer models.

We'll hear about an aquifer in the Central Oregon Cascades that's three times the size of Nevada's Lake Mead. June 27, 2025. contribute now. About OPB. Public media funding. OPB and KMHD events.

Dr. Brian Waldron shares how the University of Memphis is studying aquifer breaches to protect the city's drinking water for future generations.

The rule is simple: If you own the land above an aquifer in Texas, the water underneath is yours. You can use as much as you want, as long as it’s not wasted or taken maliciously.

The aquifer, a deep underground layer of sand and gravel, underlies 15 counties and is the main source of drinking water for more than 500,000 people in Central Illinois, ...

The Buffalo Aquifer is a one-mile-wide, 32-mile-long strip of gravel, surrounded by densely packed clay that stretches from Wilkin County to northeast of Moorhead.