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[Granite26]

Exactly as stated.  My embark location spans 3 biomes two of which are temperate deserts.  Both deserts showed aquifers in the sand layer on the embark screen, but neither appear to have them when I'm digging down. 

Is this a known issue?

It appears that the sand layer on both is a single layer of sand (the surface is sand, and the first subterrainian Z level is, but it goes straight into Rhyolite after that).  I kinda wanted the water

[Jude]

Maybe it somehow ended up below a few stone layers? I don't know if that can even happen. You could go back to the embark screen and check out what layers it says that aquifers are on.

Or it could just be that the aquifer was only present in a tiny corner of each biome.

[Granite26]

I've got a screen shot of the embark screen.  It says the white sand layer, but there's only that top z-level of white sand.  I'm also drilling wells all over the map to no avail...

[DJ]

I get that all the time.

[i2amroy]

If the biomes extended past the edges of your map, there is a chance that the part of the biome that contains the aquifer is beyond the edges of your map.

[DJ]

Shouldn't the whole biome have an aquifer? My memory may be playing tricks on me, but when I had a map with both an aquifer biome and a non-aquifer biome, the aquifer's edge ran neatly beneath the biome border.

[Kanil]

From what I heard, deserts tend to eat the first (soil?) layer of an aquifer.

[Marlowe]

Whoops, then I'm in trouble.

[Calvin]

Your desert is probably scorching hot.

Once you dig, the aquifer instantly dries up

[eerr]

easiest aquifer piercing ever?

just dig a huge pit