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 ...

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 ...

LAWRENCE — A crew from the Kansas Geological Survey, based at the University of Kansas, along with staff from three field ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Citing progress in solving water quality problems at its Turkey Point Nuclear Plant, Florida Power & Light Co. said Monday it plans to begin drawing up to 14 million gallons of water a day from the ...

Nebraska residents, who live along the 80-mile stretch of Platte River where the sandhill cranes rest and fatten up for the northern part of their migration, are once again feeling the excitement of ...

A massive thunderstorm swept through the San Antonio area on Monday, May 26, bringing flooding rain and damaging hail. Yet despite the overnight storm signaling an end to the Memorial Day festivities, ...

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 ...