Articles Tagged with ''aquifer management''

El Niño is coming. Brock Yordy explains the impacts on groundwater, drilling job sites, and global water infrastructure.

Episode 157 of The Driller Newscast finds host Brock Yordy connecting winter safety, major DOE restructuring, and the growing overlap between water, drilling, and geothermal energy.

EPA Regional Administrator Cyrus Western said the approval supports both resource development and environmental responsibility

Illinois is setting the pace with tough new rules to protect the Mahomet Aquifer, joining other states that are figuring out how to push carbon capture projects forward without putting critical water supplies at risk.

The decision focuses on the Battle Springs Formation—a deep aquifer in the Great Divide Basin—and clears the way for Lost Creek ISR, LLC, to boost its underground mining efforts.

Two cities and the Texas A&M University System are suing to stop a project that would pump up to 89 million gallons per day of groundwater 80 miles away to other boomtowns in Central Texas.

A drilling mishap in Vandiver, Alabama, has left residents without water after a contractor punctured an aquifer—raising fears of long-term damage and contamination.

Scientists from the University of Oregon have mapped this subterranean water reserve and found that it is much larger than previously thought. It holds at least 81 cubic kilometers of water.