water crisis

Some experts believe that years of extreme drought and unchecked water usage have put U.S. cities at risk of critical shortages.

By Alex Groves From The Orange County Register Santa Ana—Flowers, shrubs, and grass are pretty to look at, ...

Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba declared a local state of emergency on Tuesday after the Mississippi capital's water ...

Federal officials have intervened in the Jackson, Mississippi, water crisis to facilitate an agreement for an interim water ...

Commentary As Republicans expand their power in Congress, high on their agenda should be a change in the ...

Officials from Jackson City in Mississippi, a region that recently faced a water crisis, have voted to allow ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Thursday it is opening an investigation into Mississippi’s role in Jackson's water crisis, ...

Residents of Jackson, Mississippi have filed a class action lawsuit against the city and engineering firms after a ...

A power crunch and record heatwaves in China have disrupted factories, offices, farmlands, and many of the cities’ ...

JACKSON, Miss.—Frustrated residents of Mississippi's capital on Wednesday waited in long lines at distribution sites where volunteers handed ...

A water agency official attributes California’s current water shortage to state laws that limit pumping water for urban ...

A megadrought that’s been scorching southwestern United States for the past two decades is now noted to be ...

NEW DELHI—The year 2021 saw China gaining a smaller share of global supply chain investments, compared with the ...

HONOLULU—The Navy believes that contaminated tap water that went to Hawaii military households came from a one-time spill ...

Ahead of a meeting of Australia’s water ministers in Brisbane on Tuesday, Australian Federal Water Minister David Littleproud ...

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced the details of a new drought stimulus package worth around one ...

A Chinese water bottling plant being built in Russia is drawing protests from locals who fear its harmful ...

LANSING, Mich.—A year after the tap water in Flint was exposed as a source of dangerous levels of ...

Venezuela is experiencing critical shortages, prompting concerns that a humanitarian crisis will engulf this oil-rich South American country. ...

State and local officials still aren't doing enough to fix problems that caused lead pollution of drinking water ...

Newly hired outside engineers have been given a month to find Flint's underground lead water pipes, Michigan Gov. ...

A look at some of the key events in the development of the Flint water crisis.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has asked President Barack Obama to issue an emergency and major disaster declaration amid ...