The Malfeasance That Created Flint's Water Crisis
A new report on lead contamination in an Ohio city underscores the severity (and ubiquity) of the town's health disaster.
Water Crisis
Say Goodbye to Snowpack
Snow-dependent drainage basins that supply much of the world with water are steadily declining.
Some Weird and Unusual Drought Tactics
In the spirit of last week's Fort Bragg announcement, we present a few other interesting ways Californians have gone about saving water.
Solutions to Water Supply Issues Surface in the West
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.
Water Shortages Threaten the American West Lifestyle
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.
San QuintÃn and Brackish-Water Farming
Water issues inland present a challenge and a threat to agriculture and the economy.
The World Water Crisis: High Cost, Low Priority
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.