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Groundwater

A massive sinkhole in central Turkey is attributed to a three-year drought and climate change.
Climate Change
Massive sinkholes appear in farmers’ fields in central Turkey due to climate change and drought
sinkhole
Science
How to detect a sinkhole — before it swallows you up
Nestle
Economics
While Flint waits, Nestle pumps Michigan water on the cheap
Workers pick strawberries in a field on a farm in Oxnard, California, on February 24, 2015.
Environment
Agriculture is thriving in bone-dry California, and that’s not a good thing
Sediment from a stream bed containing fracking wastewater (jars on the left) developed orange residues after 90 days; sediment from a clean stream bed (jar on the right) did not.
Environment
As fracking booms, waste spills rise — and so do arsenic levels in groundwater
Environment
How groundwater is saving California farmers during drought
Environment
How India’s subsidized farms have created a water crisis
EPA Says Fracking May Cause Pollution
Science Note/ Candles
Protecting Abundant Water
Technology Update
Thirsty Planet