Three-quarters of the world's drought-prone areas are at risk of extreme water shortages — known as "day zero droughts" — ...

Climate change could leave 74% of the world’s drought-prone regions at high risk of severe and prolonged droughts by the end of the century, new research suggests. reading time 3 minutes Earth’s ...

Imagine being marched by force through a desert with barely anything to drink while your captor repeatedly cools himself by dumping gallons of water on his head, and maybe you’ll start to get a sense ...

Hotspots of water scarcity could emerge by the 2020s and 2030s across the Mediterranean, southern Africa, and North America, as climate change intensi ...

The mayors of Los Angeles, Phoenix and other Western cities are calling for the Trump administration to help the region address the Colorado River’s chronic water shortages. City leaders in the group ...

30 million Americans live in areas where surface water supply struggles to meet demand, according to a new assessment by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The report highlights alarming disparities, ...

Eventually, Abu Mohammed and his family reached their breaking point. Water was vanishing on the outskirts of Baghdad, and ...

AIKEN — The City of Aiken has engaged a consulting firm to investigate possible causes of the discolored water and sediment delivered through the city’s water system in June. The company, DCCM, will ...