Nitrate pollution has become one of the most widespread water quality challenges in intensively farmed regions around the ...

Researchers explain how nitrate from farming and fish ponds moves through water and pollutes freshwater lakes.

The burgeoning City of West Palm Beach wants to tap the brackish Floridan Aquifer with 30 wells to supplement its vulnerable surface water supply in a move that would require building an expensive ...

A known human carcinogen has been found in drinking water sources across the country, according to a report by the environmental organization Waterkeeper Alliance. The International Agency for ...

A research expedition, known as Expedition 501, has found a huge deposit of "secret fresh water" stretching from New Jersey all the way to Maine, after drilling into the seafloor off Cape Cod. With ...

The aerial view looks west toward the the Patterson Reservoir and Patterson Pass-Alameda County Water Plant, located beside the South Bay Aqueduct, part of the California State Water Project in ...

BOISE, Idaho — The director of the Idaho Department of Water Resources (IDWR) issued an order on May 30 to curtail, or shut off, groundwater rights that are junior, or more recent, to March 31, 1954 ...

All stages of the fossil-fuel life cycle are a threat to human health, yet global overdependence on fossil fuel continues unabated, despite ambitious international agreements to lower greenhouse-gas ...