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 giant reservoirs have declined during the last two decades, even larger amounts of water have been ...

The Colorado River basin has lost huge volumes of groundwater over the past two decades according to a new report from researchers at Arizona State University. Researchers used data from NASA ...

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

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 ...

The Colorado River Basin has lost twice as much groundwater since 2003 as water taken out of its reservoirs, according to a ...

The Colorado River Basin lost an alarming amount of groundwater over the past 20 years, a new study found. Nearly 28 million acre-feet of water has been depleted from the region, nearly the volume of ...

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

“Groundwater is a crucial buffer ... then it becomes an existential crisis.” Much of the Colorado River’s water is used for agriculture. A new study shows 46% of the water that is ...