B.C. has been working to bring people who use groundwater into the licensing system introduced with the 2016 legislation.

India is the largest pumper of groundwater in the world, pumping twice that of the USA and 6 times that of Western Europe, pumps around 75 acre inches per well from around 30 million irrigation ...

Sustainable rates of groundwater withdrawal in Oregon's Harney Basin were surpassed 20 years prior to the time declining groundwater levels were generally recognized, a new analysis found.

Irrigation accounts for about 70 percent of global groundwater withdrawals, and the researchers found that rapidly declining groundwater levels were “virtually absent” in uncultivated lands.

Visakhapatnam: A recent groundwater resource assessment has estimated Andhra Pradesh's annual groundwater extraction in 2024 ...

The act, which came into effect in 2016, requires groundwater users in the province to get a licence and pay fees for purposes such as irrigation, commercial and industrial use — but some ...

Researchers have found that rust-coated irrigation pivots could signal an absence of nitrate in nearby groundwater -- and position them as a guidepost when monitoring for the contaminant, which ...

The initiative leases desert land to farmers at a symbolic price of one dollar per dunum (0.25 hectares in Iraq's measurement), provides subsidised irrigation systems, and buys their harvest at a ...

According to the agriculture ministry, Iraq cultivated 3.1 million dunums (775,000 hectares) this winter using groundwater and modern irrigation systems, while the rivers watered only two million ...

Officials don't always know who is using groundwater, how much they're using, or where they're drawing it from, experts say.