“Hydraulic fracturing near domestic groundwater wells” is the title of a paper that should make anyone who drinks water sit up and take notice. Published in October in the Proceedings of the National ...

In recognition of their meritorious work and service toward the advancement and promotion of discovery and solution science, three faculty from UC Santa Barbara have been selected for section awards ...

Debra Ruth Perrone was born in Hartford on November 23, 1961. Debbie passed from this world to the next at home surrounded by her loving mother, sister and brother in Vernon on June 13, 2021. She died ...

During California’s severe five-year drought, groundwater levels fell to record lows and people in farming communities from Tulare County to Paso Robles saw their wells go dry. Now researchers have ...

Groundwater may be out of sight, but for over 100 million Americans who rely on it for their lives and livelihoods it’s anything but out of mind. Unfortunately, wells are going dry and scientists are ...

About half of hydraulically fractured wells exist within 2 to 3 kilometers of domestic groundwater systems, warn researchers. How safe is the water you drink? For the 45 million Americans who get ...

Wells built to bring underground water supplies to the surface are being dug deeper to tap into dwindling aquifers, according to a new study. By compiling decades of records for nearly 2 million ...

Groundwater is rapidly declining across the globe, often at accelerating rates. Writing in the journal Nature, UC Santa Barbara researchers present the largest assessment of groundwater levels around ...

Water is an ephemeral thing. It can emerge from an isolated spring, as if by magic, to birth a babbling brook. It can also course through a mighty river, seeping into the soil until all that remains ...

Groundwater, which has been used to irrigate crops, satiate livestock and quench thirst in general for thousands of years, continues to be a vital resource around the world. Groundwater, which has ...

April 22 (UPI) --If groundwater levels continue to decline as they have over the last several decades, new research suggests approximately one-fifth of groundwater wells around the world will be at ...

The Central Valley in California is a farming powerhouse, growing more than 250 crops and producing $17 billion of agricultural products every year to feed the world. In short: the wells are literally ...