Arizona moves toward new groundwater limits in San Simon as state data show falling water levels, land subsidence and earth fissures.
Tag: land subsidence
California’s Delta wetlands burn test explores carbon storage
A pilot burn in California’s Delta explores how cultural fire practices may increase carbon storage, restore wetlands, and reduce land subsidence.
A new National Ground Water Association editorial explains how aquitards, the low-permeability layers beneath our feet, quietly control groundwater flow, contamination, subsidence, and water quality.
Despite heavy rains, Arizona’s Willcox Basin continues to sink from decades of groundwater pumping, a scientist warns at a Geological Society meeting.
Metropolitan Water District partners with rice farmers on Delta islands to combat subsidence, restore wetlands, and support vital habitats.
A silent collapse: Land is sinking beneath major U.S. cities
Major U.S. cities are sinking due to groundwater pumping, with Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Denver among the hardest hit, threatening infrastructure.