To celebrations by environmentalists, California’s largest irrigation district on Tuesday rejected funding a contentious $17-billion water project that would replumb the West Coast’s largest estuary.
Read morePortugal’s Pego do Altar reservoir looks like disused quarry now, its bare, exposed slopes rising up steeply on each side and shimmering in the sun as it holds barely 11 percent of the water it was designed for.
Read moreA federal agency contributed $50 million to a $16 billion water project in California under the nose of Congress and taxpayers, according to a federal audit released Friday.
Read moreFor decades, water seeped below the spillway of the nation’s tallest dam unnoticed by operators, slowly eroding critical infrastructure until the spillway crumbled during heavy storm releases this past February, investigators said Tuesday.
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A federal judge on Friday advanced a lawsuit against a Northern California city accused of knowingly delivering drinking water contaminated with a carcinogen highlighted in the film “Erin Brockovich.”
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The Ninth Circuit needs to sort out who governs water pumping in western Nevada after hearing three hours of arguments in three cases Wednesday, involving arcane but important issues of Western water law.
Read moreA federal judge has given the go-ahead for a planned 263-mile water pipeline from central Nevada to Las Vegas, pending a further look at how to mitigate habitat loss.
Read moreCalifornia homeowners may soon pay a first-of-its-kind drinking water tax under a recently amended bill aimed at clearing the state’s water supply of pollutants like lead, arsenic and nitrates.
Read moreUpholding the denial of a permit that would make New York home to a 125-mile natural-gas pipeline, the Second Circuit found Friday that the state is entitled to conduct its own environmental-impact review.
Read moreNew York state on Thursday followed through on its promise to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its Administrator Scott Pruitt for allowing dredged sediments to be dumped into eastern Long Island Sound.
Read moreSeeking to freeze a contentious $16 billion waterworks plan supported by Gov. Jerry Brown, Sacramento County sued the California Department of Water Resources on Thursday over its certification of the project’s “dizzying” and “shifting” environmental review.
Read moreThe thirst of California’s 40 million residents and the ravages of climate change has the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta – the state’s most important water source and the West Coast’s largest estuary – on the brink of ecological disaster. The fix, according to Gov. Jerry Brown? A plan to build two water tunnels under the delta, at a cost of $16.7 billion.
Read moreNestle’s marketing and sales of Poland Spring water has been “a colossal fraud perpetrated against American consumers,” 11 people claim in a federal class action.
Read moreThe University of Rhode Island is using an $8 million grant to lead the charge in understanding how fluorinated pollutants found in products like nonstick cookware and firefighting foam contaminate drinking water and affect people.
Read moreThe U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday released its annual checkup of the Earth, highlighting numerous records including hottest year, highest sea level, and lowest sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctica.
Read moreTen states on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to clarify a recent Ninth Circuit ruling that they say essentially wiped out state groundwater rights in favor of federal oversight.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit has ordered a new trial against a Chilean industrial chemical company that the Southern California city of Pomona says contaminated the its water system with fertilizer chemicals.
Read moreOn my way out, I talked to the lone park ranger at the entrance to the Salton Sea. I asked him if the sea was dying. “If nothing is done, it will die off,” he said. “But s-l-o-w,” he said, stretching out the last word.
Read moreGroundwater pumped through a proposed water pipeline from central Nevada to Las Vegas could have permanent and devastating effects on water resources, opponents told a federal judge Monday.
Read moreResidents of Flint, Michigan, can pursue civil claims against the city and state municipal officers in a water-contamination suit because the Safe Drinking Water Act does not pre-empt civil rights claims, the Sixth Circuit ruled on Friday.
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