Explore the world’s most pressing water stories, mapped. — and see how the crisis is unfolding near you and far from home. Click the image below to learn more. Puerto Rico’s water crisis has gone from ...

Kitchen tables with meals made from locally grown foods. Reliable electricity to power lights, refrigerators, and air conditioners. Clean water flowing from showerheads and taps, sustaining the basic ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimated in 2023 that the nation’s water utilities need to spend $625 billion on infrastructure over the next 20 years. Two-thirds of that total is for water ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has backed off its re-assessment of cancer-causing nitrates despite decades of research suggesting the contaminant is more harmful than previously thought ...

Michigan is giving a green light to a large new concentrated dairy farm that would add millions of gallons of animal waste to a region where water quality is already suffering from manure saturation.

The ready access to nature and winter sports is what prompted Elizabeth Scott and her family to up sticks from Portland, Oregon, to Houghton on Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula in summer 2021. With 29% ...

Ohio is the Great Lakes region’s leader in new data center developments. These sites are projected to account for one-fourth of the state’s total electricity use by 2040. To address these needs, a new ...

More than 21 million households in the United States use septic systems — not a public sewer — to trap and filter their toilet waste. The underground tanks are most common in rural areas, especially ...

My first glimpse of Lake Superior, in all its lore-and-song-inspiring glory, is a blurry one from the backseat of a taxi driving through Thunder Bay. Superior, or Gitchigumi, which means Great Lake in ...

Not since DDT was introduced to U.S. agriculture to kill insects after World War Two has a farm chemical been as important to American crop production, and come under more scientific, political, and ...

Certainty on the River: Tribes have negotiated a settlement to resolve the largest outstanding claim to the Colorado River, while providing billions of dollars for water infrastructure. Upper Hand: ...