A research team affiliated with UNIST has unveiled a new technology that can convert seawater into clean drinking water using ...

For months, residents in the southeast corner of Louisiana have relied on bottled water for drinking and cooking, with the water from the faucet coming out salty. Plaquemines Parish Councilman Mark ...

RIO VISTA — Charlie Hamilton hasn't irrigated his vineyards with water from the Sacramento River since early May, even though it flows just yards from his crop. Nearby to the south, Antioch has ...

In the middle of Nantucket island, the U.S. Geological Survey drilled a test well to see how far down the groundwater went.

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Seawater intrusion is the movement of saline water from the ocean or ...

Water touches virtually every aspect of human society, and all life on earth requires it. Yet, fresh, clean water is becoming increasingly scarce — one in eight people on the planet lack access to ...

ABOARD LIFTBOAT ROBERT, North Atlantic — Deep in Earth’s past, an icy landscape became a seascape as the ice melted and the oceans rose off what is now the northeastern United States. Nearly 50 years ...

The saltwater wedge moving up the Mississippi River has cities downriver of Baton Rouge on high alert to keep supplied with fresh drinking water. New Orleans and Jefferson Parish officials are ...

Unsafe levels of salt water may reach many New Orleans-area drinking water intakes by mid-October, forcing officials to scramble for barges that will bring in fresh water from further up the ...

Holly Michael receives funding from the US National Science Foundation, the US Geological Survey, and the US National Park Service. Seawater intrusion is the movement of saline water from the ocean or ...