On the heels of record-setting drought, heavy rains and dam failures have inundated farmland and homes in northern Syria. ● Water reserves in Athens’ largest reservoir tripled from October to April, ...

As lake whitefish teeter on the brink of collapse in the lower Great Lakes, Michigan lawmakers are considering investing in a last-ditch effort to save the iconic species before it’s too late. An ...

Explore the issue of San Luis Valley drinking water heavy metals and its impact on local families and well water quality.

Covering an area the size of the United Kingdom and surrounded by half a dozen large, energy-hungry metropolitan regions, the Great Lakes, surprisingly, boasts not a single offshore wind energy ...

LINCOLN COUNTY, Nebraska – Though it looks like nothing more than a deep trench cutting across corn stubble and dark winter soil, the big water pipeline that construction workers are about to complete ...

Irrigation brought fat harvests to the plains. But the water is disappearing. Industrial agriculture on the Great Plains began in the 1950s when mechanized pumps and sprinkler irrigation systems ...

Kansas regulates both aquifers and rivers under the system of prior appropriation, a legal code that gives priority to those who historically used the water first. To pump from either source, a permit ...

Blooms occur in Lake Erie’s western basin, Lake Michigan’s Green Bay and Lake Huron’s Saginaw Bay. North America’s Great Lakes are the largest source of fresh surface water in the world. They are ...