Global public opinion poll measures views on freshwater challenges. As the world’s weather flips more rapidly between the poles of too wet and too dry, the general public is taking notice. Fifty-eight ...

Thames Water is among six water companies to have blocked bonus payouts to bosses over serious pollution incidents and other ...

In an effort to increase education and awareness of water quality and water pollution problems, a number of county organizations partnered up enlist the community in creative ways to address these ...

Southern Water has said it is "highly likely" millions of plastic pellets that washed up on an East Sussex beach escaped from its wastewater treatment works. Volunteers cleaning up the pellets at ...

Jennifer Mayerle happily returned to Minnesota and WCCO, where she began her career as a summer intern. The Emmy and Edward R. Murrow award-winning journalist returned to WCCO as a reporter in 2014 ...

Sixteen scientists compiled 50 years of data on the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers, two of the largest sources of drinking ...

A journalist and a farmer visit three fields with different styles of cultivation — conventional, organic and no-till — to bury cotton underwear in each. Though this sounds like the beginning of a bad ...

With swelling demand straining its antique wastewater infrastructure, it’s no wonder Fort Myers has water pollution problems. Fecal bacteria in its creeks, fountains "of raw sewage”, dirty ...

Escambia to hire a consultant to develop Bayou Grande watershed management plan, one of several ongoing projects to clean up, ...

Fizzy water was the key to making polyester dye less harmful to the environment in the creation of a new method developed by an interdisciplinary team at the University of Leeds spin-out company, ...

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