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A child carries a container filled with water at the slum of Petare, on April 4th, 2019, in Caracas, Venezuela. Since March 7th, Venezuela has been suffering intermittent blackouts, which have affected the water supply. People have to collect water from waterfalls and pipes and carry it to their homes. This water, not always suitable for human consumption, is used for drinking, cooking, and bathing.

In Venezuela, Repeated Power Outages Have Triggered a Water Crisis (in Photos)

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.

Leah Dunlevy

News in Brief

The Bureaucratic Malfeasance That Created Flint and Sebring’s Water Crises

A new report on lead contamination in an Ohio city underscores the severity (and ubiquity) of the town's health disaster.

Jared Keller

Environment

Say Goodbye to Snowpack

Snow-dependent drainage basins that supply much of the world with water are steadily declining.

Madeleine Thomas

Environment

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.

Madeleine Thomas

Environment

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.

Arnie Cooper

Environment

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.

Arnie Cooper

Environment

San Quintín and Brackish-Water Farming

Water issues inland present a challenge and a threat to agriculture and the economy.

Kristian Beadle

News in Brief

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.

Melinda Burns