WATERBLOGGED

March 05, 2018

Crops with higher levels of a protein require 25 percent less water

Last night at the Oscars we saw visionary and Konami adversary Guillermo del Toro walk away with both Best Director and Best Picture for The Shape of Water, his science-fiction fairy tale about a love story between a mute woman and an amphibious fish god, which is exactly as weird as it sounds.

March 06, 2018

Regulators resist storage that would save for a non-rainy day.

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March 06, 2018

Flint, Michigan, has been without clean water since 2014.

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March 06, 2018

Crops with higher levels of a protein require 25 percent less water

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February 20, 2018

Cape Town residents have drastically lowered their water use, allowing their drought-plagued city to push back the dreaded “Day Zero,” when the system is expected to run dry, by more than 10 weeks.

February 20, 2018

A proposal to make California’s drought-era water restrictions permanent could allow the state to chip away at long-held water rights in an unprecedented power grab, representatives from water districts and other users told regulators Tuesday.

February 20, 2018

Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson on Tuesday announced an $850 million settlement in the state's lawsuit against 3M over water contamination by perflurochemicals, or PFCs, in several east Twin Cities suburbs.

February 14, 2018

Cape Town, a coastal paradise of 4 million on the southern tip of South Africa, is to become the first modern major city in the world to completely run dry. Time

February 07, 2018

Tsogo Sun Holdings Ltd. plans to build a desalination plant that will help supply its Cape Town hotels with their own water, shielding guests of South Africa’s biggest hotel and casino operator from the city’s deepening water crisis.

February 07, 2018

Water. Aqua. H20. Adam's Ale. It's pretty good stuff. We're mostly made of it, we have to drink lots to survive, and for years it has flowed safely from our taps in all its refreshing goodness.

February 07, 2018

In 1854, a London anesthesiologist and amateur sleuth made a history-changing discovery about the link between contaminated water and human disease...

February 06, 2018

The Garden State is going to court over the Trump administration's efforts to rollback Obama-era water protections.

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February 06, 2018

More Than 2,500 Sites That Handle Toxic Chemicals Are Located in Flood-Prone Areas Across the Country.

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January 30, 2018

The drought threatening a disastrous shortage of water in Cape Town has spurred at least one group of designers to imagine a future in which the salty waters of the ocean that borders the city might serve as source for cultivating food.

January 29, 2018

Privatization and deregulation could damage city water supplies and lead to pollution of our natural environment.

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January 30, 2018

Florida's two senators on Tuesday criticized the federal government's decision to cut off food and water shipments to Puerto Rico, even though 20% of the island still lacks running water more than four months after Hurricane Maria...

January 30, 2018

Nestle Waters North America’s campus in Breinigsville is busy making a new product — a brand sparkling new one.

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January 30, 2018

Drinking water and staying hydrated is an essential part of being healthy, but picking up any brand of bottled water to reach your suggested daily intake might not be the smartest move. Many bottled water brands have acidic pH levels and added fluoride, which can be extremely damaging to your teeth.

January 22, 2018

After years of the state’s mystifying failure to address a public health crisis that plagues about 1 million predominantly low-income residents, many advocates believed they had reached a breakthrough last year.

January 23, 2018

Cape Town officials are tightening water restrictions amid claims the city could run out of water by April 21. After three years of intensive drought, officials say residents are bracing for "Day Zero," the day water could stop flowing.

January 21, 2018

(SANTA BARBARA, Calif.) — A coastal California highway swamped by deadly mudslides reopened Sunday after a nearly two-week closure that caused traffic headaches across the region, state officials said.

January 22, 2018

Environmental radicals in California are trying to derail a sensible and responsible water-reclamation project.

January 22, 2018

Water vapor gets sucked up to high altitudes, allowing its hydrogen to escape into space

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January 22, 2018

Over some 25 years, Don Meyer never had problems with the drinking water at his Old Cross Gates home near Slidell. That is, until 2017.

January 22, 2018

Dozens of small and rural utilities in the state have for years provided water that contains illegal levels of radiation, lead and arsenic. Lack of resources is largely to blame — but there's more to it than that.

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January 22, 2018

Targeted tests of homes served by the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority have again exceeded a key federal threshold for lead contamination, the utility said Monday.

January 23, 2018

Thick sheets of water ice, some barely buried beneath the surface and likely more than 100 meters thick, have been spotted on several Martian cliff faces.

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