Deep below the surface of the ground in one of the driest parts of the country, there is a looming problem: The water is ...

— Most of the total water losses occurred in the drier Lower Colorado River basin. It lost 20.7 million acre-feet of groundwater since 2003. That accounted for 71% of the total water losses in the ...

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 ...

“The Colorado River Basin is losing groundwater at an alarming rate,” Karem Abdelmohsen, a postdoctoral researcher at Arizona ...

The amount of groundwater that has been pumped out of the Colorado River Basin since 2003 is enough to fill Lake Mead, researchers report in a study published earlier this week. Most of that water ...

Officials have warned that 40 million Americans could soon lose access to drinking water as the nation's vital source of ...

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 has ...

Basinwide, researchers found, groundwater storage has fallen by 27.8 million acre-feet since 2003 — enough water to fill an ...

The researchers found that groundwater was being depleted faster than it could be restored, and that total water loss was ...