State lawmakers are trying for a second year to require commercial users to more accurately track water usage. Farmers have ...

The Salt Lake Tribune analyzed dozens of water rights applications submitted in the two years following a moratorium on most new appropriations within the Great Salt Lake Basin. Here's what we found.

The increase of water scarcity around the globe causes some fear that World War III will not be over oil but rather it will ...

“A great performer, a great competitor ... according to a Facebook post by Fowl Plains, the guide service. The Fowl Plains team said they had grown close to the hunters on board the flight ...

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IT could be in the water, Mr. Uldrich explains how the impacts of high nitrate in the water having could affect and in times create serious health problems for plants ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Kansas lawmakers are considering requiring child support payments before birth. A hearing was held in Topeka on House Bill 2062.

and this causes difficulties for cross-jurisdictional basins such as the Great Artesian Basin and the Murray Basin. The Bureau of Meteorology has developed the National Aquifer Framework for naming ...

Operated by U.S. Corps of Engineers. Great Salt Plains State Park manages five camping areas, which include six different cabins. There is also a community center building with kitchen facilities ...

While studying the volcanic landscape of the Cascade Range north of the California border, Oregon scientists recently discovered something they did not expect: an aquifer containing much more ...

so less of it being stored as snowpack and maybe seeping into these fissures – what are projections for the future of this aquifer? Karlstrom: Yeah, it’s a great question. And I don’t have ...

The American West is hungry for water, and scientists just found a previously unmapped aquifer three times the size of Lake Mead. The discovery came when researchers, studying drill holes left ...