“If all pumping stopped today, it would take over 280 years for the aquifer to recover,” said Ryan Mitchell, the state water department’s chief hydrologist in a recent presentation on the ...

High rates of pumping can dry up wells and cause the ground to collapse, damaging roads and other property. According to a water resources department report, 26 wells in the basin that are ...

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High rates of pumping can dry up wells and cause the ground to collapse, damaging roads and other property. According to a water resources department report, 26 wells in the basin that are ...

Oct 24 (Reuters) - South Sudan will resume pumping crude oil for export through a port in neighbouring Sudan within a few days, a South Sudanese government official told Reuters on Thursday ...

Water depletion has accelerated since 2005, according to ADWR data, resulting in a loss of 2 million acre-feet of water stored in the aquifer. ADWR Director Tom Buschatzke could either move ...

Water depletion has accelerated since 2005, according to ADWR data, resulting in a loss of 2 million acre-feet of water stored in the aquifer ... new wells and pumping an unlimited amount of ...

In the meantime, the basin is closed to new agriculture use while the department decides whether to create the management area southeast of Tucson that would allow it to set goals for the well-being ...

PHOENIX (AP) — Gov. Katie Hobbs and the Arizona Department of Water Resources have made the first move toward regulating the use of groundwater in the state's rural southeast that is being ...

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power agreed to retract its Notice of Determination and Notice of Exemption for the Deep Aquifer Pumping Project on Oct. 8. The retraction follows ...