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drilling for water

Environment

US groundwater shortage is forcing us to dig extremely deep wells

Groundwater provides drinking water for 120 million Americans and irrigates farmland - but demand in some places, including in California, is drying up wells

News

wetlands

Environment

Wetland conservation is a key part of saving Earth’s ecosystems

Culture

Fracking facility

Environment

Could fracking with carbon dioxide instead of water be greener?

News

The delightful and dangerous world of liquids

Video

The delightful and dangerous world of liquids

Video

How to win the America's Cup

Video

How to win the America's Cup

Video

Martian landscape

Space

Water on Mars is probably too cold and salty for life as we know it

News

waterfall

Earth

��˾þ�s chasing waterfalls discovered something they aren't used to

News

Don’t miss: A life in death, aquatic mysteries and the brain unveiled

Life

Don’t miss: A life in death, aquatic mysteries and the brain unveiled

Culture

From the archives: Does dowsing really help you find water?

Earth

From the archives: Does dowsing really help you find water?

Regulars

fatberg

Environment

Fatbergs: Everything you wanted to know but were too disgusted to ask

Huge lumps of fat and waste keep appearing in sewers, particularly in the UK – are fatbergs really on the rise, or are we just paying more attention?

Insight

Physics

Megawave recreated in the lab looks just like Hokusai's Great Wave

News

Technology

Mohammed VI Museum of Water Civilization review – lessons from Morocco

Culture

Space

We could drill water wells in Martian ice to survive on the Red Planet

News

Earth

Why Earth's water could be older than Earth itself

Features