Tap water is cheap, but old pipes and a shrinking Colorado River could change that

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Workers install new PVC pipe under a street in Denver on October 11, 2023. Denver's water department has planned nearly…

Biden-Harris Administration Proposes Ban on Trichloroethylene to Protect Public from Toxic Chemical Known to Cause Serious Health Risks

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Proposal aligns with President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot by reducing toxic exposures known to cause cancer WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection…

Biden’s $8 billion quest to solve America’s groundwater crisis

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A researcher measures water levels in an irrigation well near Marienthal, Kansas. Water levels in the state's Ogallala Aquifer have…

Colorado River water debate: Tribes weigh in on future agreements

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FILE – Phillip Yazzie waits for a water drum in the back of his pickup truck to be filled in…

Floodplain Forward

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Reactivating floodplains in the Sacramento Valley to benefit fish and farms As climate change exacerbates drought, it can often feel…

Climate Change Is Driving a Global Water Trade You Can’t See

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Every manifestation of the ­dangerous weather wreaking havoc around the world has one thing in common: water. As the Earth’s…

AG ALERT: Farmers, tribes weigh in on river flows for salmon

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Farmers, ranchers, tribal members and others who rely on water from the Scott River and Shasta River watersheds turned out…

Low Flows, High River Temperatures and Pollution Force Emergency Condor-Style Plan to Save Salmon Species

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California Water Policies Decimate Threatened Central Valley Spring-Run Chinook Salmon California Department of Fish and Wildlife environmental scientists herd yearling…

Scientists Disagree About Drivers of September’s Global Temperature Spike, but It Has Most of Them Worried

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A woman reacts as a wildfire burns at Palem Raya Regency in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatera, Indonesia on September 18,…

Toxic PFAS from US military bases polluting drinking water, report finds

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The defense department has only looked at about one-third of more than 700 facilities suspected of having contaminated the ground…