The Edwards Aquifer Authority enacts the most restrictive drought cutbacks it can, as the J-17 index well in Bexar County ...

A prime cause is a 1993 state law that allowed continued groundwater pumping for new developments as long as the developer paid a three-county water district to replenish the aquifer elsewhere ...

The entire city of Columbus has slowly begun to sink into the earth at a terrifying rate - putting more than one million ...

A new study from the U.S. Geological Survey finds that groundwater in Appalachia, the Gulf Coast, and California is ...

Researchers found the cities are sinking slowly—just a few millimeters per year—but their findings raise some big questions ...

The White Earth Nation has proposed a casino-resort complex on land above the Buffalo Aquifer, a source of Moorhead's water. A diagram shows the layers of an aquifer, which stores water beneath ...

The cities include not just those on the coasts, where sea level rise is a concern, but many in the interior. And one is in Ohio. Here's where.

And one of them is in Ohio. Known scientifically as land "subsidence ... Detroit and Indianapolis are sinking at roughly the same rate, per the map. The nation's fastest-sinking city is Houston ...

Generally, according to a statement from Lamont-Doherty, it happens as water is withdrawn from aquifers made up of fine-grained sediments ... Austin, Columbus, Ohio, Indianapolis, Nashville, El Paso, ...

The movement is slow — sinking on the scale of millimeters per year in the United States — but the effects accumulate over ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped groundwater variables nationally to understand which aquifers are most vulnerable ... states including Pennsylvania, Ohio and Texas.

A map of locations with vulnerability to groundwater contamination due to orphaned wells. Credit: Science of the Total Environment The Gulf Coast aquifers, including the ... in states including ...