meaning it is “thick” with water. In western Kansas, where we are, the aquifer undulates so much that “thin” water is often separated from thick water by only a few miles. A steer is ...

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 ...

Across New Jersey, reservoir levels are dropping fast, but other, less noticeable water supplies are also shrinking. Deep underground, some of the state's aquifers have dropped to record lows and are ...