For most Americans, April 1 conjures images of practical jokes, pranks and other hijinks. But for the farmers and other water users throughout California, the date is something entirely different — the most important day in the state’s water year.
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Agrochemical giant Monsanto cannot duck a lawsuit accusing it of contaminating Baltimore waterways, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
Read moreUpper Missouri Waterkeeper sued EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler in federal court for approving a poison-pill variance that voids the science-based nutrient water quality standard that protects Montana water.
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In the latest break between the Trump administration and California on environmental policy, officials on Tuesday cemented plans that will give the state unprecedented control over a project that delivers water to more than 27 million residents.
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Montana rivers and waterways are in store for toxic algae blooms thanks to the Trump administration’s rollback on water-quality standards, according to an environmental group’s federal lawsuit filed on Tuesday.
Read moreA family sued San Luis Obispo in superior court, claiming it has to supply them with enough free water for 30 head of livestock under a deal reached in 1911.
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The second-largest river in California has sustained Native American tribes with plentiful salmon for millennia, provided upstream farmers with irrigation water for generations and served as a haven for retirees who built dream homes along its banks.
Read moreA Southern California federal judge found agrochemical giant Monsanto can’t dodge the Port of San Diego’s public nuisance case over the company’s alleged pollution of the San Diego Bay and its fish.
Read moreThe Alliance for the Wild Rockies sued the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in federal court, claiming it is killing hundreds of bull trout each year by refusing to install fish screens in the St. Mary Canal in Montana.
Read moreWhile some might opt for the soothing hot springs for which Iceland is famous, this story is about the hardy group who prefer an ice bath, all in the name of wellness.
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Sealing a baffling fight over a ditch that involved dead cows, helicopters and a criminal trial, a federal judge ruled Tuesday that a California county didn’t trample a rural cattle rancher’s civil rights in its curious attempt to sabotage his water rights.
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Ruffling feathers in Delaware, a Superior Court judge upheld decisions by state environmental regulators to allow a poultry processing plant to spray treated wastewater on nearby farmland.
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Early one morning in Cairo, volunteers paddle their kayaks across the Nile, fishing out garbage from the mighty waterway that gave birth to Egyptian civilization but now faces multiple threats.
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Inside her greenhouse, Emilia Gomez bends down to see how her strawberries are faring following a difficult season with barely any water after her farm’s illegal well was shut down.
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Scientists announced Friday the discovery of a previously unknown significant source of carbon hidden in the Arctic that has researchers concerned over what it may mean amid the era of climate crisis.
Read moreWaterwatch of Oregon, et al. sued the Army Corps of Engineers in federal court, claiming its reallocation of 487,400 acre-feet of water stored in the Willamette River Basin Flood Control Project to industry and farming imperils endangered salmon and steelhead.
Read moreThe director of New Mexico’s Game and Fish Department sued the State Game Commission, for clarification on whether private landowners may exclude the public from streams flowing through their property, in Santa Fe state court.
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A hot shower is the perfect place to consider the impact of climate change on the water-electricity nexus, since you need water and electricity to heat it. Research published in the journal Climate Change on Thursday models the relationship between power and water utilities in the U.S. Midwest, as global climate changes.
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In parched and dusty villages in northern Argentina, children have been dying of hunger and disease linked to a lack of clean water and nutrition, despite living in one of Latin America’s richest economies.
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