The upside of harnessing existing data from petroleum companies to map deep aquifers and address Africa’s water crisis is clear. Reduced costs and shorter timelines would represent a huge gain ...

Unlocking seismic data could aid the search for fresh groundwater in Africa, where water scarcity affects two-thirds of the population.View on euronews ...

Africa needs to profit from its wealth of mineral resources – but not to the detriment of African people in the long term. The mining planned in the Stampriet aquifer system has not properly ...

The subterranean aquifer takes in mass amounts of snowmelt and rainwater, where it percolates for seven to 10 years before fueling many of Oregon’s most famous rivers through gushing springs.

Canadian miner Lundin must permanently close its Alcaparrosa copper mine in Chile, the South American nation's environmental ...

Kulkarni told TOI, "We had aquifer maps of the area from a previous study. Coupled with Google Maps and a general understanding of the area, we identified 17 locations — including wells ...

The regulator’s head, Marie Claude Plumer, said that Lundin operated in unauthorized sectors up until the Copiapo River aquifer, which allowed more water to infiltrate in and subsequently weaken ...

The team of researchers was able to map the extent of the aquifer by relying on previous field work in the 1980s and 1990s during which scientists had drilled holes to measure temperatures deep ...

A massive aquifer is stored just beneath volcanic rocks ... was infiltrating through cracks in the volcanic rocks to map the volume of the underground reservoir. Because the drill holes did ...