With California trudging ahead with a contentious $16.7 billion water project, a cache of environmental and social concerns remain around its plan to replumb the source of drinking water for an estimated 25 million residents.
Read moreGoose Pond Ag and Farmland Management Services, an affiliate of John Hancock Life Insurance, will perform mitigation and pay $5.3 million for disturbing streams and wetlands in the Sacramento Delta, under a 2-year-old settlement, the Department of Justice said Wednesday.
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity claims in Kern County Court that the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board allowed Valley Water Management Co. to discharge oil industry wastewater, some of it carcinogenic, into dozens of unlined pits, which already have polluted groundwater in a plume that extends for miles.
Read moreSouth African President Cyril Ramaphosa has ramped up an anti-corruption drive, authorizing an investigation of alleged wrongdoing in the national water department’s dealings with German software firm SAP.
Read moreFortification costs for the nation’s tallest but flawed dam have spiked to over $1 billion, California officials said Wednesday – a figure more than five times original estimates.
Read moreCalifornia brought a federal complaint against the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States Section, under the Clean Water Act for dumping millions of gallons of wastewater into the Tijuana River, Tijuana River Estuary and Pacific Ocean.
Read moreThousands of Detroit public schools students were told Tuesday to drink from district-supplied water coolers or bottled water on the first day of classes, after the drinking fountains were shut off because of contaminants in some water fixtures.
Read moreSaying that a rash of water-main breaks has made flooding nearly constant, the city of Hoboken took its sewer operator to court for a solution.
Read more“A beautiful and rare sight to see,” Massachusetts officials tweeted Tuesday, captioning a 10-second video of a humpback whale soaring up from the calm waters of Boston Harbor.
Read moreDetroit officials said Wednesday the city will shut off drinking water in all of its schools after testing revealed elevated lead and copper levels in more than half of the 24 buildings.
Read moreThe spread of toxic algal blooms in the nation’s waterways – largely caused by a combination of warming water, contaminant run off and “supercharged bacteria” – won’t stop anytime soon, one scientist told lawmakers Tuesday.
Read moreGreek authorities have declared a state of emergency on the resort island of Hydra after a power failure blacked out the island and disrupted its water supply.
Read moreIrrigation techniques promoted to farmers around the world as water-saving are actually increasing water usage, according to a new study.
Read moreMono County sued Los Angeles and its Department of Water and Power for reducing water deliveries to 6,400 acres and increasing the amount of water LA exports from the county.
Read moreAs the Permian Basin region in Texas and New Mexico continues to experience a historic oil boom, a new study has found that water usage for hydraulic fracturing has increased nearly eightfold in the semi-arid region over a five-year period.
Read moreThe city of Chula Vista charges Monsanto, Solutia and Pharmacia in a federal complaint with having knowingly polluted its stormwater system and San Diego Bay for years with carcinogenic PCBs.
Read moreIn the latest chapter of California’s ceaseless war to manage shrinking water sources, regulators are considering drastic changes that would reduce the amount of snowmelt available to San Francisco and farmers during dry years.
Read moreDriven by the scarcity of supply, climate change and ground watershed depletion, scientists on Tuesday will present a design for a first of its kind portable harvester that mines freshwater from the atmosphere.
Read moreA judge on Monday ordered Michigan’s state health director to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter in two deaths linked to Legionnaires’ disease in the Flint area, the highest ranking official to stand trial as a result of the tainted water scandal.
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