California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act was enacted a decade ago to address one of the state’s oldest water problems: the over-exploitation of groundwater aquifers on which many cities, ...

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A helicopter drags a hoop used to send and receive electromagnetic signals into the earth above Pine Flat Dam. The process is used to search for ancient river channels for better groundwater recharge.

Over half of the world’s freshwater lakes are in decline, storing less water than three decades ago, according to a study led by CIRES researchers that was featured on the cover of Science. The ...