North Carolina officials are warning people with cuts or open wounds not to swim in saltwater or brackish water after three people died of an infection in July. The state Department of Health and ...

This is a map of 94 wells across New Mexico that the state can use to characterize brackish water aquifers, according to state researchers. Advocates, experts and even industry leaders interested in ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — An influx of salt water in the Mississippi River, which feeds southeastern Louisiana's drinking water supplies, is once again creeping up the waterway. For the third year in a row, ...

NEWARK, Calif. (KGO) -- As more communities impose water use restrictions because of the drought, the California Coastal Commission is likely to vote on a controversial proposal later this year that ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. As New Mexico’s droughts grow longer and more frequent under climate change, depleting water supplies, a mostly ...

The New Mexico Environment Department and Office of the State Engineer have awarded more than $25.9 million in grant funding to brackish water projects across the state. New Mexico is working to tap ...

ALICE, Texas — On Wednesday morning, the city of Alice held a groundbreaking ceremony for the first Brackish Water Treatment Plant in the state of Texas. This treatment plant will provide the City of ...

New Mexico faces significant and increasing future water scarcity because of its arid climate, over- allocation of existing supplies and likely future droughts. Traditional freshwater sources such as ...

The vast majority—97 percent—of the earth’s water is salt water found in our oceans. Another two percent is stored in ice caps or glaciers. That leaves just one percent of all water on earth for ...

FILE - In this aerial photo a tugboat pushing barges navigates around sandbars amid low water levels on the Mississippi River in Livingston Parish, La., Sept. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) ...

An influx of salt water in the Mississippi River, which feeds southeastern Louisiana’s drinking water supplies, is once again creeping up the waterway. For the third year in a row, an underwater levee ...