A great water partner? An agency named geology: USGS

7 years ago

Who's this, hard at work assessing water resources? [Metropolitan Planning Council] uses research and data from the U.S. Geological Survey…

Groundwater Monitoring Reveals Widespread Radioactivity at Duke Energy Coal Plants​

7 years ago

Data shows high levels of radioactivity at 11 of 18 plants Today is the deadline for coal-fired power plants to…

Canadian teen tells UN to ‘warrior up,’ give water same protections as people

7 years ago

Canadian water activist Autumn Peltier, a 13-year-old from Manitoulin Island, addresses the UN General Assembly on world water day. Her…

How Privatizing Water Systems Costs Taxpayers — & Endangers Them

7 years ago

Illustration by Lisa Lee Lucas for Heavy A yearlong investigation by Heavy found that privatized water management has been a…

Anxiety drugs are getting into the water we drink. This is how we could stop them

7 years ago

New research shows that pharmaceutical drugs are not being filtered out of our water systems. Image: Reuters/Srdjan Zivulovic Wastewater treatment…

Microplastics found in more than 90% of bottled water, study says

7 years ago

Researchers find levels of plastic fibres in popular bottled water brands could be twice as high as those found in…

New species of ‘water bears’ discovered in parking lot — tardigrades

7 years ago

It’s not often that a microscopic organism gains celebrity status, but that’s exactly what tardigrades have managed to accomplish. The…

Safe drinking water must be a shared value in Minnesota

7 years ago

Proposed rules on agriculture fertilizer would help protect groundwater. It’s hard to persuade residents of a state whose very name…

Warmer, saltier polar water could change global ocean currents

7 years ago

When ice shelves melt, they dump freshwater into the sea which lightens the salty water. Credit: Flickr/NASA ICE, licensed under…

Plastic Toxins World Epidemic — Plastic Pollution

7 years ago

Plastic is everywhere, including in the sea and its fish, in the soil and its plants, in our food and…