Water

Federal regulators have moved to delay assessment and action on chemicals that could contaminate drinking water. Richard Luthy explains the ramifications.

A new device capable of turning desalination waste into commercially valuable chemicals could make the process cheaper and more environmentally friendly.

As climate change and population growth make drinking water costlier, here are six strategies to quench the state’s thirst without busting its budget.

An ambitious research project looks to develop affordable devices to recycle most of the water we currently throw away.

Made from affordable and durable materials, this technology could make coastal wastewater treatment plants energy-independent and carbon neutral.

Measurements of suspended sediment concentrations reveal a lot about the health of a waterway, but until now such data has been difficult to obtain.

​In addition to reusing water, we'll have to augment the supply from reservoirs with recycling, stormwater capture, desalination and other strategies.

Equally important are the often-overlooked issues in infrastructure, including information flow, governance and accountability.

Ocean experts discuss the limitations of bans on single-use plastics, as well as potentially higher impact solutions.

A newly ​developed model looks at how updated regulations and financing options could help renew our aging water infrastructure.

The use of drones and algorithms could equip scientists to more accurately model and predict how water flow, wave action and temperature affect the health of our oceans and planet.

Today we treat water by using costly fans to pump air into pools of ordinary bacteria, but a new process based on anaerobic, or oxygen-averse bacteria could digest waste for less.

Participants traveled to the Columbia River valley to understand the interplay between water, energy and human populations.