More than 4 billion people worldwide have fecal contamination in their drinking water. That figure has remained stubbornly high, even after decades of international investment and development efforts, ...

A new UN report outlines how vanishing lakes, overdrawn aquifers, and rapidly melting glaciers are pushing billions toward acute water shortages and adding pressure to food systems worldwide. Stacey ...

Turn on a tap, fill a glass, take a sip. For millions of people around the world, this simple act comes with a moment of hesitation or outright fear. Water quality varies so dramatically across ...

United Nations researchers say the planet has blown past a simple “water crisis” and into something more structural: a kind of hydrological insolvency where humanity is drawing down natural reserves ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A new report warned that the worsening water crisis affecting both the United States and Mexico is not just ...

Amid chronic groundwater depletion, water overallocation, land and soil degradation, deforestation, and pollution, all compounded by global heating, a UN report today declared the dawn of an era of ...

Water is essential for life, yet billions of people around the world still lack reliable access to clean, safe water. As climate change accelerates, populations grow, and infrastructure struggles to ...

More than 70% of the world’s marine protected areas are polluted by sewage, with levels often higher than in nearby unprotected waters.

Arsenic contamination in drinking water is a global issue, with over 200 million people estimated to be at risk. While water ...

A new report shows nitrate contamination has been worsening at more than a third of monitored groundwater sites – likely ...