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The world has a long way to go in finding solutions to water shortages, according to John Streur of Calvert Research and Management.

Monday is World Water Day 2021, an annual United Nations Observance focusing on the importance of freshwater

The snow and ice that crippled some states across the South has melted, but it has exposed the fragility of aging waterworks that experts have been warning about for years.

A U.S. Coast Guard crew rescued a distressed deer who had been caught in a current over the weekend in Clarence Strait, Alaska.

Carbonated water seemed to be particularly affected.

The Trump Administration wants to change the definition of a showerhead to let more water flow, addressing a pet peeve of the president who complains he isn’t getting wet enough.

A federal judge is recommending that Georgia prevail in a longstanding legal battle with Florida over water consumption from rivers shared by the states, though the final decision rests with the U.S. Supreme Court. The neighboring Southern states have been fighting since the 1990s over Georgia’s use of water from the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers that serve booming metro...

Excited to hit the pool this summer? A new report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may make you think twice before you dive in. Outbreaks of Cryptosporidium, a parasite spread through the feces of infected humans or animals, increased an average 13% a year from 2009 to 2017, the CDC announced in a report published Friday....

Prosecutors who dropped charges against eight people in the Flint water scandal explained their decision in a public forum Friday night, telling frustrated and shocked residents they must look at hundreds of mobile devices and millions of documents that a previous investigative team never reviewed. Michigan Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud and Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy spoke to about 100...

Scientists are predicting a near-record dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico – an area where the water holds too little oxygen for marine life.

Scientists are predicting a near-record dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico – an area where the water holds too little oxygen for marine life.

A landlocked surf resort in Central Texas closed on Friday after a Ventnor, New Jersey, man who visited died from what is commonly known as a “brain-eating amoeba.”

Each contestant in this year’s Miss America pageant had 10 seconds on stage to introduce herself. Michigan’s contestant Emily Sioma used her brief platform to bring attention not just to herself, but to an ongoing public health scourge in her home state: the Flint water crisis. “From the state with 84 percent of the U.S. fresh water but none for...

Residents of Flint, Michigan, are frustrated and angry after learning the state will stop providing them with free bottled water.

President Donald Trump reached for a bottle of water during a speech about his trip to Asia and it had the internet abuzz.

Boil water notices have been issued for several cities in South Florida.