As the water supply under Baton Rouge slowly fills with salt, some officials have called on companies like ExxonMobil and Georgia Pacific to stop tapping the aquifer for industrial uses, depleting the ...

HAMILTON — Government officials, academics and businesses in the Miami Valley are working on an action plan to attract businesses to the region using water. Water from the Great Miami River Buried ...

For the first time in 2½ years, water drawn from a contaminated aquifer in southern El Paso County soon will be flowing from Fountain residents' taps after being filtered to remove dangerous chemicals ...

BATAVIA — The city, town and county today all shared their opposition to a firm’s application to the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to draw 715,000 gallons of water per day from ...

Three decades of data have informed a new Nebraska-led study that shows how the depletion of groundwater -- the same that many farmers rely on for irrigation -- can threaten food production amid ...

TREMONT - If the Mahomet Aquifer becomes a major source for a regional water supply in Central Illinois, officials from the village of McLean want to know about it. Village officials, regional ...

Water or lack of it plagues Oklahoma. It’s almost impossible to wrap the mind around how much water the state needs daily, let alone each year. There are 3.9 million Oklahomans drinking at least a ...

Do deep water wells ever truly run dry, or are other issues usually the cause? A recent HelloNation article featuring Water Well Drilling Expert Ben Pearson of Pearson Drilling Company in Lake City, ...

Exxon taps the aquifer to cool equipment, generate steam power and supply employees with drinking water. To cut off the company from the groundwater supply would be a considerable burden, he said. "It ...