Wyatt Myskow / INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS

It’s been nearly a decade since Steven Kisiel’s well at his home in Wilcox, Arizona, ran dry. 

ELY, Nevada—The smell of piñon pine filled the air as the Ghost Train of Old Ely rolled to a stop between the Duck Creek Range and another railway. Two peaks of jagged limestone towered above the…

Dozens of proposed projects would pump water uphill to reservoirs that release it to generate electricity when wind and solar can’t. But their reliance on groundwater in the drought-stricken…