The World Bank said women that were born in droughts bore the marks for their entire lives, growing up mentally and physically stunted, undernourished and unwell... READ MORE›
Construction began in 1966 and water started flowing out of the dammed Tagus headwaters to the Segura in 1979... READ MORE›
Climate change is likely to cause decade-long mega-droughts across US south-west and Great Plains, new study shows... READ MORE›
Egypt, once celebrated as the gift of the Nile, is in the grips of a serious water crisis... READ MORE›
Furthermore, many companies in the parched south and east of England have been set leak reduction targets for 2020 of zero or even targets that could allow leakages to increase... READ MORE›
John Pomeroy says it is unwise for Fort McMurray and the province to okay rebuilding in a floodplain... READ MORE›
Campaigners want to shut down a Nestle bottled water plant in southern Ontario, arguing there's not enough water to go around... READ MORE›
Meanwhile, the water level was decreasing at Lake Oroville dam, where a damaged spillway had raised major flood concerns... READ MORE›
Quebec towns hit by flooding could see water recede Sunday officials... READ MORE›
John Price, water resources engineer at the Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority, said people and planners should be paying close attention to current flood mapping... READ MORE›
We're using our groundwater resources too fast -- faster than they're being renewed... READ MORE›
We need, in many areas, three, four, five of those to really replenish our groundwater resources to where they were before this last drought, Harter says... READ MORE›
By the environment minister, Greg Hunt, using the water trigger legislation after the NSW government's Planning Assessment Commission PAC gave approval last month with conditions... READ MORE›
In addition to direct investment in agriculture to reduce environmental degradation, Iran can benefit from sustainable industrial growth that improves the efficiency of water usage... READ MORE›
It says some of the contaminated water may have gone into nearby Stoney Creek, which flows into the Columbia River... READ MORE›
Heavy rain earlier this week caused the Ottawa River to overflow, leading to severe flooding in parts of Rigaud, Que., west of Montreal... READ MORE›
Frequent flooding of the Brahmaputra river is causing Majuli, located in India's Assam state, to erode away... READ MORE›
Today 1.2 billion people almost a fifth of the global population live in areas of physical water scarcity... READ MORE›
But flood waters from the swollen Somass River started to surround homes in the Tseshaht First Nation on Tuesday... READ MORE›
Water from the dam is expected to flood the Kunene river, which in turn will flood parts of southern Angola and northern Namibia... READ MORE›
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›
That means that all our water management strategies are potentially not optimised, said co-author and hydrologist Anthony Kiem from the University of Newcastle... READ MORE›
The study's authors, two water experts at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, said they weren't shocked by their findings... READ MORE›
But what they've done is hold back as much water as possible to alleviate downstream flooding, he said... READ MORE›
The Environment Agency said the one severe flood warning - in place for Portreath, on the north Cornwall coast - had been downgraded... READ MORE›
The extra funding, described by the prime minister as vital, relates to Storm Eva, which battered northern England, including Cumbria and Yorkshire on Boxing Day... READ MORE›
The irony is that Thomastown artist Shem Caulfied is talking to me standing in six inches of water in his front room on Thursday morning... READ MORE›
Flows along Kinder Morgan Inc.'s El Paso pipeline, the main shipper of Texas gas to California, are down 28 percent since the start of the year... READ MORE›
According to the United Nations Environment Programme, temperatures in Mongolia have risen by 2 degrees Celsius in the last 70 years, three times faster than the global average... READ MORE›
ROME - Torrential rain in Italy has triggered flooding that killed at least five people in the Tuscan port town of Leghorn... READ MORE›
Mr Santos said more than 40 of the dead identified so far were under 18, perhaps because youngsters were already in bed when the floodwater struck... READ MORE›
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