The brutal Australian drought has emerged as “The Biggest Dry.” This is no mere statement of hyperbole, scientists tell us. It’s what happens when a nation purposefully designed to use an enormous ...

On March 27, amid a flourish of national attention, Utah’s Republican Governor Spencer Cox signed much-debated legislation ...

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India has pledged to break a decades-old water-sharing treaty with Pakistan, promising to cut off Indus River flows into the latter nation in the coming months. Lead mining in Myanmar has boomed since ...

Water, Texas is a six-part series on the consequences of the mismatch between runaway development and tightening constraints on the supply and quality of fresh water in Texas. The story of Texas is ...

Drought is upon the American West — with major implications for human health, biodiversity, agriculture, food security, supply chains, cities, land use, and the most very basic of human rights. This ...

To save a dying aquifer – or at least their piece of it – a group of roughly 60 farmers in northwest Kansas decided on a self-imposed diet. The move a dozen years ago to voluntarily restrict the water ...

Seldovia, Alaska — a quintessential sleepy fishing town on the southern edge of the Kenai Peninsula — starts to wake up around late May. By then, the first salmon are running. Water taxis come and go.