In 2021, Illinois lawmakers created the Mahomet Aquifer Council. But now, as they ponder legislation that would ban carbon sequestration activity within the aquifer's footprint, lawmakers will be ...

"As soon as that water’s gone, we don’t have another ice age to re-establish it," a retired hydrologist warns.

Safe yield, in which the region pumps no more groundwater than is recharged into the aquifer in a given year, is prescribed by the landmark 1980 Arizona Groundwater Management Act.