Then that basin dried up. But rainfall continued to eat away at the earth to create the deep fissures and caverns inside the aquifer. Scientists like Devitt think that as the climate became more ...

Around 300 feet below the ground sits a different water resource: an aquifer. The underground water feeds the river and fills ...

A stony outcropping of the sponge-like rock that makes up the Ogallala Aquifer is exposed in the hills high above Scott State Fishing Lake in Scott County, Kansas. The lake is spring-fed from ...