Deep below the surface of the ground in one of the driest parts of the country, there is a looming problem: The water is ...

Aquifers, which are water-bearing layers of rock underground ... show up as blue arteries snaking across the desert. Intermittent and ephemeral streams appear as staggered, broken lines that ...

Water transported in canals and pipelines has begun flowing into a series of basins carved into the desert, filling a large underground reservoir that will be available to draw upon in dry times.

In the sunbaked desert of northern New Mexico ... "the sense of being underground with light streaming in, the intimacy of being in a cave, yet the columns end up very large, sometimes 30 ...