American Water Works' board has raised the company's quarterly dividend by 8.1%, to 76.5 cents from 70.75 cents. The new payout, equal to $3.06 a year, represents an annual yield of about 2.5% ...

At least 2.5 million North Carolinians have drinking water contaminated with harmful chemicals known as PFAS, according to a new report. "I don't want everyday people to have to bear the burden of ...

Water scarcity already affects every continent. Around 1.2 billion people, or almost one-fifth of the world's population, live in areas of physical scarcity, and 500 million people are approaching ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Average gasoline prices in Oregon have fallen 6.6 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $4.20/gallon Monday, according to GasBuddy's survey of 1,307 stations in Oregon.

Although the water hasn't seeped into her house yet, she said the flooding outside her front door is the worst she's seen in her 20 years of living there. "Our septic system is down. There's no ...

These molecules will separate from each other when sucrose dissolves. Water molecules arrange themselves around the sucrose molecules according to opposite polar areas. The attraction of the water ...

Water molecules are so attracted to each other that even after the balloon pops, the water molecules stay together keeping the shape of the balloon. In the water molecule, the oxygen and hydrogen ...

IOWA (KWWL) -- Average gas prices in Iowa have decreased 7.3 cents per gallon within the last week, averaging $3.21 according to GasBuddy. Prices in Iowa are 9.8 cents lower than a month ago and ...