Editor's note: The News-Press started this weekly feature to answer water questions, including those submitted by the public during the 2018 Save Our Water Summit. Question: Our drinking water comes ...

As communities across the Inland Northwest face increasing drought, population growth, and changing hydrologic conditions, ...

Underground environments like soil and aquifers teem with microbial life. These tiny microbes play a big role in cycling ...

A heavily discussed bill made its way through the state legislature with the goal to protect drinking water across Central ...

The Atlantic Coastal Plain of South Carolina stretches from the Piedmont to the Atlantic Ocean and offshore under the Atlantic sea floor. This area was formed by sediment deposited from erosion of the ...

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A stony outcropping of the sponge-like rock that makes up the Ogallala Aquifer is exposed in the hills high above Scott State Fishing Lake in Scott County, Kansas. The lake is spring-fed from water ...

Shirley said when miners dig deep into the earth to retrieve sand, limestone or other resources, they eventually hit the ...

After an industrial building boom on Corpus Christi Bay, the city is drilling wells to meet water demand, and rural Nueces ...

One expert points to conservation, treated wastewater and seawater desalination as potential solutions for securing the ...

The plant took swift corrective action, a state environmental official said. — -- A massive sinkhole at a fertilizer plant in Mulberry, Florida, has caused about 215 million gallons of ...