Editor’s Note: This is the third of a five-part series called “KTAR Water Watch,” which will explore the present and future of the water supply across Arizona and metro Phoenix. PHOENIX — You can’t ...

Hotter summers and a burgeoning state population have made Texas’ water supply more important than ever, but groundwater contaminants remain a critical issue for state water authorities to address.

The IAEA invites research organizations to join its new Coordinated Research Project (CRP) focussed on the combined use of environmental water, gaseous and pollutant isotope tracers to better ...

Texas agencies reported 252 new cases of groundwater contamination during 2023 in the Texas Groundwater Protection Committee annual report. The latest report compiles 2,870 open cases of groundwater ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Story spent five nights last week reporting on the groundwater crisis in eastern Oregon's Lower Umatilla Basin, where decades of commercial food production have contaminated the ...

When Morrow County declared a state of emergency in 2022 over the high levels of nitrates found in the Lower Umatilla Basin’s groundwater, the long-term response to the crisis was a jumble of local ...

Legislators have just passed a groundwater protection bill that many nonprofit groups working on groundwater contamination said was too watered down to make a real difference. Gov. Tina Kotek backed ...

Federal officials outlined plans to clean up half-century-old groundwater pollution under central Phoenix during a meeting with community members on Nov. 13. Officials from the Environmental ...

Rivers, lakes, and wetlands cover the landscape of our blue planet, but over 97 percent of the world’s freshwater resources lie beneath the ground. In fact, scientists estimate that there is 100 times ...

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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A class action lawsuit filed by a group of Oregonians is accusing a local utility company and a creamery of “dangerous” nitrate pollution in residents’ well water. The lawsuit, ...