All The World's News
Recent News Headlines : Biscayne Aquifer -
THE 11 CITIES MOST LIKELY TO RUN OUT OF DRINKING WATER
Cape Town faces the unenviable situation of being the first major city in the modern era to run out of drinking water... READ MORE›
CAPE TOWN IS ABOUT TO BECOME THE FIRST MAJOR CITY IN THE WORLD TO RUN OUT OF WATER
That's what residents of Cape Town are calling the day when their city is predicted to run out of water... READ MORE›
CAPE TOWN CONFRONTS LOOMING 'DAY ZERO' WATER CRISIS
People are even catching water off their roofs... READ MORE›
SOUTH-EAST ENGLAND AT RISK OF WATER SHORTAGES THIS SUMMER, OFFICIALS WARN
As well as supplying our customers in the Medway towns, Thanet and Hastings, it is also used by South East Water... READ MORE›
INSIDE THE LATEST HEALTH DRINK CRAZE
Many in the United States have now decided to forego drinking tap water in exchange for raw water, putting their health at risk in the process... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Biscayne Aquifer
CANADIAN TOWN STEAMS OVER NESTLE BID TO CONTROL LOCAL SPRING WATER WELL
Activists in Centre Wellington plan to block Ontario pump tests after bottled-water makers overtook community's attempt to secure long-term water source... READ MORE›
GIRL 3 BRAIN DAMAGED AT BIRTH RECEIVES HSE APOLOGY... COURTS
Deforestation in the Amazon River basin, hundreds of miles away, may also be adding to Sao Paulo's water crisis... READ MORE›
AT LEAST 33 US CITIES USED WATER TESTING 'CHEATS' OVER LEAD CONCERNS
Forty-three cities provided information, and 33 of these used distortions in their water testing in the past decade... READ MORE›
ROMANS ARE ABOUT TO GO EIGHT HOURS A DAY WITHOUT WATER
Climate change and crumbling pipes are forcing Rome into unprecedented water rationing... READ MORE›
ONCE-DREAMY HAITIAN BEACH TOWN PICKS UP THE PIECES AFTER HURRICANE MATTHEW
At least several hundred Haitians died in the storm, a number of them in Port Salut... READ MORE›
LEAD TAINTS DRINKING WATER IN HUNDREDS OF SCHOOLS, DAY CARES ACROSS USA
Typically, schools are very responsive, said Roger Crouse, Maine's drinking water program director... READ MORE›
US AUTHORITIES DISTORTING TESTS TO DOWNPLAY LEAD CONTENT OF WATER
Lambrinidou's Virginia Tech colleague Marc Edwards was one of the first scientists to highlight the risks posed to Flint residents by their drinking water... READ MORE›
QUARTER OF ENGLAND'S RIVERS AT RISK OF RUNNING DRY, FINDS WWF
Further data shows that more than 550 rivers and lakes are in a poor ecological state because too much water is being taken from them... READ MORE›
BEYOND FLINT: EXCESSIVE LEAD LEVELS FOUND IN ALMOST 2,000 WATER SYSTEMS ACROSS ALL 50 STATES
Most Americans get their drinking water from a fragmented network of about 155,000 different water systems serving everything from big cities to individual businesses and school buildings... READ MORE›
'WE WOKE UP IN A DESERT' THE WATER CRISIS TAKING HOLD ACROSS EGYPT
Egypt, once celebrated as the gift of the Nile, is in the grips of a serious water crisis... READ MORE›
TRILOBITES TWO-THIRDS OF THE WORLD FACES SEVERE WATER SHORTAGES
Severe water scarcity can lead to crop failure and low crop yields, which could cause food price increases as well as famine and widespread starvation... READ MORE›
FLINT WATER CRISIS: FIVE CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER
The Michigan Civil Rights Commission issued a report in February blaming systemic racism going back decades for the problems that caused the water crisis in Flint... READ MORE›
FLORIDA DROPS BILL TO OPEN FRACKING IN THE EVERGLADES AFTER PUBLIC OUTCRY
Conceding defeat, Richter said that fracking in Florida was determined by the low price of oil, and promised that the issue would surface again... READ MORE›
CANADA HAS 20 PERCENT OF THE PLANET'S FRESHWATER. BUT SOME WORRY THERE'S NOT ENOUGH TO GO AROUND.
Campaigners want to shut down a Nestle bottled water plant in southern Ontario, arguing there's not enough water to go around... READ MORE›
IS THE WORLD RUNNING OUT OF FRESH WATER?
Over half of Israel's drinking water now comes from desalination... READ MORE›
'I COULD NOT LET THIS BEAST WIN'
As they battled to get as much water to the fire crews as they could, firefighters were working to protect the water treatment plant itself... READ MORE›
WATER UTILITIES SERVING AMERICAN CITIES USE TESTS THAT DOWNPLAY CONTAMINATION
There is no estimate of how many of the nation's 155,000 water utilities flush lines before testing for lead... READ MORE›
A PARCHED WORLD A DRYER HOSE AND AN OAKVILLE TEEN WITH A VISION
Calvin Rieder, 19, has been trying to solve the world's water problems since Grade 7. Lost cause? Far from it... READ MORE›
ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM HARMS AMERICANS IN FLINT - AND BEYOND
Flint, Michigan is experiencing a well-documented crisis as a result of a contaminated water supply... READ MORE›
ALMOST A MILLION PEOPLE STILL WITHOUT WATER IN SANTIAGO, CHILE, AFTER RAIN, LANDSLIDES POLLUTE RIVERS
As temperatures reached 30 C in Santiago during Chile's late summer, millions of people have been lining up at more than 200 water distribution points... READ MORE›
PHILADELPHIA WATER DEPARTMENT FACES CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT OVER WATER TESTING
Perhaps the most pervasive effect of recent criticism of the Philadelphia water department has been an erosion of trust in government... READ MORE›
GREAT LAKES WATER RULING SPARKS FEAR OF THIRSTY CITIES
But roughly 40 billion litres of water a day come out of that lake, based on 2014 data compiled by the Great Lakes Commission... READ MORE›
THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF OUR HUNGER FOR VALENTINE'S ROSES
Conflict over water and other resources is common in Kenya... READ MORE›
WHERE ARE THE WORLD'S MOST WATER-STRESSED CITIES?
Despite getting rain for an average of 178 days each year, this densely-populated island city still has only 110 cubic metres of freshwater per capita, per day... READ MORE›
PHILADELPHIA'S WATER-TESTING PROCEDURES ARE 'WORSE THAN FLINT' - EXPERT
They leave that up to the department of environmental protection, which gets its numbers from the Philadelphia water department... READ MORE›
FLOOD-FUELLED SEWAGE SPILLS A NEW NIGHTMARE IN IRMA-BATTERED PARTS OF FLORIDA
We still have a leaky system, said Justin Bloom, executive director of Suncoast Waterkeeper, which sued St. Petersburg and Gulfport last year over repeated sewage discharges... READ MORE›
EPA OFFICIAL RESIGNS AMID FLINT WATER CRISIS
States use the funds to make low-cost loans to eligible entities, including municipalities, for water infrastructure, meaning Flint could be a prime candidate... READ MORE›
ON WORLD WATER DAY, HERE'S A LOOK AT SOME OF THE PLACES THAT DON'T HAVE ENOUGH
However, for billions of people around the world, daily water still comes from lakes and rivers... READ MORE›
GLOBAL WARMING AND WATER SCARCITY COULD CAUSE ECONOMIES TO SHRINK BY MID-CENTURY
The World Bank said countries in large swathes of the world could shrink by up to 6 percent by 2050 due to water scarcity and climate change... READ MORE›
SOUTH YORKSHIRE TAP WATER RESTRICTIONS TO REMAIN IN PLACE
Yorkshire Water confirms it is safe for residents of Thorne and Moorends to use tap water if it is boiled first... READ MORE›