Water

Even after 35 years of efforts to resolve the issue, toxic farm water is being pushed into a local park and showing up in the eggs of local bird species.

• By Matt Weiser

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In Idaho, a state with stringent water rights, the people have managed to recharge the essential Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer that supplies hundreds of thousands with water.

• By Matt Weiser

Governor Rick Snyder announced Friday that the city's water supply is safe for residents.

• By Ashley Hackett

Pakistani farmers use tractors at the Kabul River to pump water used for field irrigation on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, on March 22nd, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Highlighting the exploration of solutions to today's water challenges, and the people working toward global water security.

• By Candace Butera

A visitor participates at an event during the eighth World Water Forum in Brasília, Brazil, on March 20th, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

A conversation with a biology professor about how technology could provide new insights into complex water systems.

• By Matt Weiser

Big Sky, Montana, is looking to become one of a handful of cities to tackle its water shortage problem through snowmaking with sewage-treated water.

• By Matt Weiser

After a difficult year, the governor has allocated a large portion of his 2018–19 budget to addressing environmental concerns.

• By Alastair Bland

Cape Town is on track to run out of water, and official city communication has been anything but exemplary—a fact that could doom the ruling political party.

• By Rosa Lyster

As water shortages increase across the country, beer companies are adapting to this new reality in innovative ways.

• By Robert Glennon

Small communities across America don't cope well with water shortages, but one group from UCLA has created something to fix that.

• By Matt Weiser

The EPA has been working on potential changes to the rule for years, but pressure to revise the rule increased after the Flint water crisis.

• By Kate Wheeling

Experts are concerned about how rainfall could spread toxic chemicals and destabilize hillsides thus threatening to damage the region's water supply.

• By Alastair Bland

The Bureau of Land Management under Trump reversed an Obama-era decision that would have subjected the pipeline to a new environmental review.

• By Kate Wheeling

The last few months have seen heavy rainfall in the Golden State, which could spell trouble for California’s dams.

• By Anumita Kaur

In praise of river snorkeling, a pastime for fish obsessives that also reminds riparian activists what they’re protecting.

• By Mary Catherine O'Connor

Tracing the mighty Indus river from the sea to its source.

• By Saba Imtiaz

Given the dual threats of climate change and increased tourism, conservationists are attempting to gather all the data they can before it’s too late.

• By Kyle Deas

A 25-acre property in New Orleans will soon become part of a series of small but important steps toward more effective and sustainable water management in the Big Easy.

• By Rebecca Worby

In the mid-1980s, a raft of new research found America's children also ingested lead from paint chips and dust, shifting the public focus from tap water to paint.

• By Francie Diep

On a search to find our right to clean drinking water in U.S. and international law.

• By Brian Palmer

Vague regulations let government officials hide drinking water contamination from the public.

• By Brian Palmer