The San Joaquin Valley recently received some good news about its groundwater: We are replenishing more of it whenever we have the chance. Comparing two recent wet years — 2017 to 2023 — the volume of ...

Groundwater recharge basins collect excess runoff during heavy rains and allow the water to infiltrate into the soil and replenish the groundwater supply. Fisher’s lab conducted experiments at ...

A groundwater recharge project converts flood flows into storage in Kern County. (photo: Department of Water Resources) Assemblymember Esmeralda Soria of Fresno has filed a measure to streamline ...

Altering control operations at New Melones Reservoir coupled with harnessing farmland for recharging has the potential to ...

Jennifer Peters signed on to have her Madera ranch become the site of an experiment in replenishing groundwater in California’s Central Valley. Though this pilot program led by a subdivision of the ...

This map is part of the Soil Agricultural Groundwater Banking Index, which identifies farmlands with the most potential to capture groundwater and help recharge the aquifer. Growers, researchers, ...

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Humans rely on groundwater for many things, but especially our food. Roughly 30 percent of all the planet's available freshwater comes from groundwater, or water that is found underground in the ...

Mars was once a wet world. The geological record of the Red Planet shows evidence for water flowing on the surface – from river deltas to valleys carved by massive flash floods. But a new study shows ...

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 ...

California’s San Joaquin Basin is at the center of the state’s water challenges, with decades of groundwater overdraft and ...