The Cascade Mountains Have Been Hiding a Precious Natural Resource. A Research Team Just Found It.
The American West is hungry for water, and scientists just found a previously unmapped aquifer three times the size of Lake ...
Massive Aquifer Beneath Oregon’s Cascades Could Be the Largest in the World
The hidden water reservoir is shockingly larger than previously thought—holding more than half the volume of Lake Tahoe.
Scientists just found 21 trillion gallons of water north of the Calif. border
North of the California border, scientists just found 21 trillion gallons of water hiding in the cracks of volcanic rock.
New Study Tracks the 100,000-Year Journey of Underground Water
A new study mapped continental groundwater flow, revealing that rain and snowmelt travel much farther and deeper underground ...
Hidden 'Continental-Size Lake' Discovered in Oregon
The subterranean aquifer lurking in the mountains contains three times as much water as Lake Mead at full capacity.
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Scientists discover enormous reservoir hidden in Cascades — more than twice the amount of water in Lake Mead
An enormous water reservoir — likely the largest aquifer of its kind in on Earth — sits inside the volcanic rocks of the ...
Giant freshwater aquifer in southern Africa is under threat from mining
A huge underground water resource the size of Austria, the Stampriet Transboundary Aquifer System, stretches for 87,000km² ...
Researchers find huge buried reservoir atop Oregon’s Cascade Range
A massive aquifer is stored just beneath volcanic rocks at the crest of the central Oregon Cascades – possibly the largest ...
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Oregon Cascades hide a huge buried aquifer
By analyzing where the temperature starts to pick up again in these deep drill holes, Karlstrom and his colleagues could ...
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Researchers find vast water supply beneath central Oregon Cascades
The previously unmapped aquifer is estimated to be more than three times the size of the Lake Mead reservoir in Nevada.