More than half of the Colorado River's total annual water flow is used on agriculture, a new study has found. The report, published in Communications Earth & Environment, was undertaken to find out ...

Some herbs grow faster thanks to your used aquarium water, while certain leafy greens love getting extra potassium from this ...

How the AI industry uses water and how that impacts an increasingly parched world is more complicated than people think.

The basic idea of a cistern water system, which collects and stores water in or near a home, goes back centuries. In some parts of Western Asia, archeologists discovered lime plaster cisterns in the ...

Over the past few months, clean water has come under the microscope thanks to a slew of research analyzing what’s in the stuff we drink. The latest is a study that has detected a previously ...

With chronic water shortages afflicting the Colorado River, discussions about how to cut usage have increasingly focused on a thirsty crop that consumes an especially large share of the river’s water: ...

Imagine a world where clean drinking water is readily available even in the most remote areas. This vision is becoming a reality thanks to innovative research from scientists in Canada. A team of ...

Water is a vital resource. Life on Earth, as we know it, is impossible without access to safe drinking water. Concerns over ...

Giant new oil and gas wells that require astonishing volumes of water to fracture bedrock are threatening America’s fragile aquifers. Increasingly complex oil wells are sweeping across Texas, ...