Arizona moves toward new groundwater limits in San Simon as state data show falling water levels, land subsidence and earth fissures.
Tag: groundwater depletion
A new study links major industrial emitters to declining Western snowpack, streamflow, rising irrigation demand and groundwater loss.
A new USGS study of 1980 to 2020 finds U.S. streams often running higher while groundwater levels keep dropping, with drying strongest across the arid West.
The United States added more than 3 million acres of irrigated farmland since 1997, but many Western states lost ground as water moved from farms to cities.
Satellites show the Sacramento Valley aquifer switched to permanent sinking in 2021, a shift wells never saw coming.
New study reveals that 95% of Arizona's rainfall evaporates. Universities identify 50+ strategies to boost groundwater recharge across all 51 state basins.