About 35 miles southwest of Chicago, Joliet is at the epicenter of a regional water crisis where many suburbs will run out of water supplied by the Cambrian-Ordovician aquifer by 2030, according ...

Friday the 13th was a lucky day this June for the southwest Iowa city of Avoca, pop. 1,700. Restaurants along Main Street had ...

DES MOINES | The DNR will hold three public hearings in April on proposed rule changes that would govern the use of the Cambrian-Ordovician Aquifer (commonly called the Jordan Aquifer) in Iowa. A ...

The Cambrian explosion, long hailed as one of the most significant events in the history of life on Earth, has now been ...

This invisibility results from the fact that the crisis lurks underground in the collapsing Cambrian-Ordovician aquifer beneath Will, Kendall, Kane, McHenry and Lake counties.

Both of these aquifer types are vulnerable to drought and overuse. Water levels in shallow alluvial aquifers are rapidly lowered during drought when pumping continues as precipitation recharge stops.

The Cambrian explosion was an extraordinary phenomenon in the evolution of life on the planet that led to the emergence of ...

DES MOINES - New rules are in the works to more closely monitor how cities and industries extract water from the Jordan aquifer, a major well water source for most of Iowa.

The Cambrian-Ordovician aquifer, commonly called the Jordan aquifer because of its Jordan sandstone formation. This aquifer underlays nearly all of the state, except for far Northwest Iowa.