As the population of Texas grows and demand for water increases, access to enough fresh drinking water will become a critical issue in many areas of the state. Yet, Texas has an abundance of brackish water. While this water source is too cloudy and salty to drink, it can be purified by desalination.

With an eye on the future, the Texas Water Development Board has approved up to $800,000 in gr ... read more >>

UC Davis alum Zeb Hogan works to save Giant Catfish in the Mekong River by working with local fisherman. ... read more >>

On the eve of an international water conference in Sweden, experts have urged officials to focus on the issue of poor sanitation in developing countries. ... read more >>

For more than 50 years, water has been a source of conflict between Israel and its neighbors, especially the Palestinians. Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are in the midst of an acute water crisis brought about not simply by the area’s naturally arid conditions or the current drought, but primarily by the maldistribution of water imposed by Israel, which controls ... read more >>

Around South Florida's vast sugar cane fields, where turtles grow to the size of basketballs and alligators own the marsh, the silence of the swamp is broken by the sound of rumbling trucks and explosions. ... read more >>

Most penguins like nothing better than to get their feathers wet with a quick swim, but this elderly bird refuses to move from his rock – because he is afraid of cold water. ... read more >>

Caribbean nations face "very, very scary" rises in sea level and intensifying hurricanes, and Florida, Louisiana and even northern California could be overrun with rising water levels due to global warming triggered by carbon-based greenhouse gases, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Saturday.

Chu's comments followed meetings with environmental ministers attending the fifth Summit of the America ... read more >>

Scientists say this year that the "dead zone" area that forms every summer in the Gulf of Mexico is one of the largest ever measured.

The large area of low oxygen that chokes marine life comes in addition to the massive BP oil spill.

Microbes that eat the oil can deplete oxygen in the water. But the researchers who measure the dead zone couldn't say there is a connection between the spill a ... read more >>

Although still not as widely accepted as in Europe and Asia, the use of ozone for water treatment has gained increased application in North America's plants, especially those dependent on large reservoirs, rivers and other surface sources for their raw water supply.

Enactment of the Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule and the Stage 2 Disinfectant-Disinfection Byproduct Rule (D/DB ... read more >>

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday that it will consider the Delta's longfin smelt population for protection under the Endangered Species Act. ... read more >>