Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades

Storage dwindles in Mashhad, home to 4 million people, as country struggles with drought

The beaches of South Wales have turned black. Thousands of small black balls covered the sand and the water, but no one knew where they had come from.

Chinese company Qingyan Environmental Technology will build a modern wastewater treatment plant in Uzbekistan, designed to recycle 60% of wastewater and convert sludge into electricity under a public-...

Experiments with untreated municipal wastewaters from 47 countries showed that some samples selected for resistant E. coli, whereas non-resistant bacteria were favored in most cases, providing a nuanc...

Harvard Professor Naomi Oreskes, a world-renowned earth scientist and historian, is the laureate of the 2025 Volvo Environment Prize. She is recognized for her influential work on the history of scien...

Barbary sheep (Ammotragus lervia) are rare in their native region but threaten ecosystems in places where they have been introduced.

The Council of Ministers has approved a fifth package of measures addressing Cyprus’ ongoing water challenges, Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development, and Environment Maria Panayiotou announced du...

Iraq signed a deal with Turkey on Sunday under which water infrastructure projects to be carried out by Turkish firms will be financed with revenue from oil sales, a Turkish official said.

Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drin...

First-of-its-kind national assessment shows efficiency can cut municipal and industrial water use by 25% to 60%, strengthening the economy and … New Pacific Institute Report Finds Huge Potential to Sa...

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The state’s citrus industry is at risk, farmers say, after Mexico failed to deliver water it owes Texas as part of a 1944 treaty.

A lab-scale single-chamber microbial fuel cell (SCMFC) with a heterotrophic nitrifying-aerobic denitrifying bacteria (HNADB)-functionalized biocathode…

Wastewater has emerged as a potential bioenergy resource. Previous research has largely focused on assessing individual bioenergy supply pathways and products, limiting system boundaries to recovery processes, or considering only a limited range of environmental impacts. This study evaluated the life cycle environmental impacts of three forms of bioenergy products (i.e., bioelectricity, bioheat, and biohydrogen) recovered through 27 pathways from sewage sludges at wastewater treatment facilities and benchmarked them against their conventional energy counterparts across 311 pathways. The results indicate that bioelectricity and bioheat have substantial lower global warming and fossil resource scarcity impacts than conventional energy commodities. All bioenergy products involve trade-offs in specific environmental categories, such as toxicity, eutrophication, and mineral resource depletion. This study further compared the environmental impacts of both intermediate and final forms of bioenergy products─bioelectricity, bioheat, biomethane, and biohydrogen. Bioelectricity had the highest impacts per unit energy due to exergy-based allocation, while bioheat had the lowest. With similar environmental impacts and no end-use greenhouse gas emissions, biohydrogen could be preferable to biomethane. Accounting for the multifunctional nature of anaerobic digestion, beyond bioenergy production, can further improve the environmental performance of most bioenergy pathways.

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has awarded $2.9 million to the city of La Monte for upgrades to its northwest and southeast wastewater treatment facilities. The funding will cover the en...

Acoustic technique could make it easier to monitor threat to marine life stemming from rising carbon emissions

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A homeowner told Hawaii News Now a man wearing a black shirt with unfamiliar logos knocked on her door and asked to test her tap water.

A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

University of Arizona researchers are looking for ways to protect the state’s water future, including plans to treat and desalinate wastewater for new use through a reverse osmosis system spearheaded