Water pollution can come from a variety of sources. Pollution can enter water directly, through both legal and illegal discharges from factories, for example, or imperfect water treatment plants.

For example, about three-quarters of the nitrogen, ... The EPA's water pollution regulations for oil refineries were established in 1985 and don't cover many pollutants, ...

Water pollution threatens nearly all the globally agreed development goals to end environmental destruction, poverty and suffering by 2030, economists warned in a report Tuesday, citing the ...

Drinking water in the United States is at risk, scientists have said, as nitrogen pollution seems to be increasing. In a new study, scientists found that a third of the world's drinking water ...

The red river in Wenzhou is just one example of the water pollution that has been running rampant in China for years. A child in a polluted reservoir in Pingba, southwest China's Guizhou province ...

JOHANNESBURG (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Water pollution threatens nearly all the globally agreed development goals to end environmental destruction, poverty and suffering by 2030, economists ...