Unsafe drinking water is not just a technical problem. It is a sign of deeper inequality, concludes a new investigation of the state of water quality in 138 countries by the United Nations University ...

The water gap is an enduring legacy of manifest destiny; the infrastructure, and legislation, that came with it still largely define how water is used. In the American West, irrigated agriculture uses ...

Rich elites with large swimming pools and well-maintained lawns are leaving poorer communities without basic access to water in cities across the world. New research published today has found social ...

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Water is cut off for days at a time as Israeli settler attacks on water in the West Bank ramp up. These two Palestinian communities show the devastating consequences ...

The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights has called on authorities to urgently address barriers to water access warning that inequalities continue to leave many without safe and reliable supplies. In a ...

Somdip is the Chief Scientist of Nosh Technologies, an MIT Innovator Under 35 and a Professor of Practice (AI/ML) at the Woxsen University. The world is grappling with numerous challenges, such as ...

MONTERREY, Mexico, June 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - T he heat is stifling in Jaime Noyola's modest house in the Mexican industrial hub of Monterrey, but he can't quench his thirst with a glass ...

Growing water shortages and climate pressures have placed renewed focus on water security and inequality, as the province prepares to mark World Water Day on Sunday, March 22. Communities across the ...

In the Navajo Nation—a sweeping landscape of red-rock canyons and desert that takes in the Four Corners—water is not taken for granted. Here, more than 1 in 3 Diné, as Navajo people call themselves, ...