Ninth Circuit Appellate Court Hears Arguments to Compel Federal Action By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue  For the third ...

The Rundown Army Corps builds a temporary barrier on Mississippi River bed to block upstream movement of salt water that ...

Salt water is moving upriver from the Gulf of Mexico. Drought in the central United States has weakened the mighty river’s ...

Brine is generally defined as water with a salt concentration higher than 50 parts per thousand, though some brines can be several times saltier Average salinity of the world’s oceans is roughly 35 ...

As they span significant areas of Asia, Europe and the Americas, karst landscapes cover some 15 percent of the Earth’s land mass. Scientists estimate that these areas of porous bedrock are home to as ...

A plan to reshape the administrative structure of the federal agency responsible for foreign aid is prompting questions about how to embed U.S. goals for water access, sanitation, and ecosystems into ...

At least 17 people across Austria, Romania, Czechia, Slovakia, and Poland have died as Storm Boris’s devastating flooding rolls through central Europe. Ballast water regulation has become a point of ...

The Rundown EPA determines that no federal drinking water regulations need to be revised right now. House passes budget bill with 20 percent EPA spending cut. EPA announces first round of funding in a ...

So what might a Clean Water Act designed for the 21st century—one that addresses both legacy pollution and emerging problems—look like? A meaningful way to address polluted runoff, so-called “nonpoint ...