Geological Walk Open

Stroll down 3 million years of Earth's history on our new Geological Walk

More about the redeveloped BGS Environmental Science Centre

The end of the drought?

With so much rain recently why are we still in drought?

More about The end of the drought?

Or register for the conference Drought - how resilient are we? June 13- 14 at BGS Keyworth

New groundwater maps for Africa

• variation in groundwater
• potential for shallow boreholes
• large groundwater stores
• handpump siting

More about the African groundwater maps

UK joins the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program

The BGS are hosting a 'kick-off' event at Keyworth on 3 July 2012

Register for the 1st ICDP-UK workshop

2012 drought and groundwater levels

Groundwater levels across much of England are low; a drought has been declared in south-east and eastern England.

More about the 2012 drought and groundwater levels.

• Groundwater levels timeline