In an area where rain is not as plentiful, such as the Arabian Peninsula, however, it is crucial to get a handle on how much good water is available under the arid desert in what are known as fossil ...

Saudi Arabia runs on two fluids – water and oil. Oil is considered by many to be the country's most important natural ...

New research has sought to identify how much good water is available in the Arabian Peninsula, where water is stored in what are known as 'fossil aquifers.' In a place like Delaware, where it ...

The aquifer beneath California's Central Valley, for instance, was labeled as highly stressed. The researchers found the Arabian Aquifer System, which supplies water to more than 60 million people ...

Topping the list of overstressed aquifers is the Arabian Aquifer System, located beneath Yemen and Saudi Arabia, from which 60 million people draw their water. "What happens when a highly stressed ...

The Arabian Aquifer in the Middle East is in the worst state, according to the data obtained by NASA. In North America, California's Central Valley Aquifer is the most troubled. There is about a ...

The Arabian aquifer system, underlying a largely desert region, is the most important source of water for 60 million people, and is the most overstressed in the world, the survey showed.

Saudi Arabia is facing a critical water crisis. With its primary water source, the Arabian aquifer, drying up, the desert kingdom's survival is at stake. This aquifer, formed 20,000 years ago ...

Some of the world’s most important farming regions rely on freshwater from large underground aquifers that have filled up slowly over thousands of years. Think of the Central Valley aquifer ...