Below Mount Jefferson and McKenzie Pass is a massive storehouse of water three times the size of Lake Mead, say Oregon ...
The Ogallala Aquifer has been in decline since the mid-20th Century. After World War II, a boom in groundwater irrigation ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (Kansas Reflector) Aquifer levels in parts of western Kansas that rely on groundwater for everything from drinking to irrigation fell more than a foot last year, Kansas Geological ...
Water officials noted that western Kansas became a feedlot and crop production powerhouse, leading producers to believe ...
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.