Studies increasingly point to the presence of pharmaceutical and personal care products in urban stretches along the Ganges River, which originates pristine in the Himalayas but is heavily polluted…
Bottled water is atrocious for the environment. You’re better off buying a water filter for healthier, tastier water
For years, the debate has raged on: which is better, bottled water, or tap?
Tom Kennedy learned about the long-term contamination of his family's drinking water about two months after he was told that his breast cancer had metastasized to his brain and was terminal.
UN warns about consequences of not conserving water and tackling climate crisis.
Water shortages are now affecting more than 3 billion people around the world, as the amount of fresh water available…
Water companies discharged raw sewage into bathing water beaches almost 3,000 times in the past year, polluting the environment and risking public health, new analysis shows.
The discharges took…
Water biodiversity is on the brink, with dire consequences for the region known for the zebra and wildebeest migration, says WWF.
Fish are being driven to extinction in the Mara River basin, putting…
The mass death of sea creatures off the coast of Kamchatka in Russia's far east was most likely caused by toxic algae and not man-made factors, Russian officials have said.
The find weeks ago raised…
Lake Chad is an extremely shallow water body in the Sahel. It was once the world’s sixth largest inland water body with an open water area of 25,000 km2 in the 1960s, it shrunk dramatically at the…
In a world-first, the extent of human development in oceans has been mapped. An area totalling approximately 30,000 square kilometres—the equivalent of 0.008 percent of the ocean—has been modified by…
Steam-based plants third biggest source of toxic wastewater
Pollutants released into water linked to cancer and other illness
The Trump administration is loosening rules for toxic water…
Despite the lush, verdant nature that surrounds the German town of Ulrichstein, residents here — and in the region — suffer from acute water shortages.
Ulrichstein Mayor Edwin Schneider, meanwhile,…
Industrial runoff and lax standards have tainted water across the US. Senators and doctors are calling me, asking what to do.
When I was a little girl, my father would sing songs to me all the time…
As water scarcity increases from factors including climate change, so do drivers of water theft, an ongoing problem in Australia.
Between 30% and 50% of the world’s water supply is stolen each year…
During a trip to Cuba's Gardens of the Queen a few years ago, I found myself around small mangrove islands in an area called Boca Grande. Floating on clear, calm water, my travel group and I kicked…
Across the UK, once thriving waterways are being wiped out by farming and water companies.
You can judge the state of a nation by the state of its rivers. Pollution is the physical expression of…
Fibreglass fuelled a boating boom. But now dumped and ageing craft are breaking up, releasing toxins and microplastics across the world.
Where do old boats go to die? The cynical answer is they are…
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