As a result of repeated outages, millions of Venezuelans have suffered increasing shortages on basic supplies and services or have lost water completely in the past two weeks.
A new report on lead contamination in an Ohio city underscores the severity (and ubiquity) of the town's health disaster.
Snow-dependent drainage basins that supply much of the world with water are steadily declining.
In the spirit of last week's Fort Bragg announcement, we present a few other interesting ways Californians have gone about saving water.
In the quarter-century since Marc Reisner issued a grim prognosis for water in the American West, various entities have made efforts to reverse what once seemed inevitable.
While not every dire prediction has come true, amid swimming pools and thirsty crops, the hard truth remains that the American West cannot maintain its spendthrift ways of using fresh water.
Water issues inland present a challenge and a threat to agriculture and the economy.
Clean and steady water that circumstance denies to up to two-thirds of the world's population remains a low priority even as trillions are spent on carbon and stimulus initiatives, a new United Nations report states.