Groundwater—the world's largest freshwater resource—is critically important for irrigated agriculture and hence for global food security. Yet depletion is widespread in large groundwater systems in ...

Fossil water refers to underground reservoirs formed during the last glacial ice age. Also known as petrowater or paleowater, fossil water borrows its name from paleontology. Like a traditional fossil ...

Using measurement data from over 170,000 groundwater monitoring wells and 1,700 groundwater systems over the last 40 years, researchers have shown that global groundwater reserves are dwindling at an ...