Geopolitical tensions, climate-related disruption and shifting global trade dynamics are causing acute congestion at Europe’s ...

Sydney Water is proposing to add purified recycled drinking water – effluent that has been highly treated back to drinking standard – to Sydney’s tapwater supply to reduce pollution and drought-proof ...

Melting snow from California's Sierra Nevada is filling reservoirs. But dry conditions have shrunk the flow of the Colorado ...

Despite the recent days of rainy weather, this calendar year is still in the top 5 of the driest years since 1906, the ...

The Colorado River Basin has lost twice as much groundwater since 2003 as water taken out of its reservoirs, according to a ...

As the Colorado River’s reservoirs have declined, even larger amounts of groundwater have been drained from aquifers. Using ...

Nearly six years after discussions started, a drought plan for the Colorado River is on the verge of becoming federal law. Legislation for the drought contingency plan aimed at propping up Lakes ...

But typically, warmer weather aggravates drought conditions by increasing evaporation; by melting snowpack faster, thus decreasing river runoff; and by causing precipitation that used to fall as ...

Parts of northern Europe have seen their worst drought in decades in recent weeks, with farmers from Scotland to the ...