Groundwater depletion threatens water sources of the American food system, and the Central Valley (CV) is one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world and a keystone in the American ...

Woods Hole, Mass. (June 17, 2025) — During the last ice age, storms soaked the now-arid Southwestern U.S., while today’s rainy Pacific Northwest remained relatively dry. As global temperatures rose ...

The state’s aquifers gained an estimated 2.2 million acre-feet of groundwater in the 12 months that ended Sept. 30. The amount of groundwater replenishment was significant, but was less than the ...