Drought Articles

Facing a hotter, drier future, seven states recently signed an extensive new water management agreement for the Colorado River reservoirs

Impact fees and pay-as-you-go mentality form backbone of Central Texas utility’s infrastructure financing.

It’s been a year since the emergency drought order was lifted following the state’s rough five-year stretch. But now some are concerned that water use is back to pre-drought levels.

A combination of severe drought and poor water supply management has Cape Town, South Africa, mere months away from temporarily turning off residents’ taps

El Paso (Texas) Water invests resources in real-time hydrological programs and long-term projects to ensure freshwater for the future.

Researchers examine the response to a lengthy drought in Melbourne, Australia, to develop an approach for building new water supply infrastructure that won’t break the bank

In this week’s news briefs, the Narragansett Bay Commission in Rhode Island is putting off completion of a multi-phase CSO project for at least three years to keep rates down, and Florida’s drought has Lake Okeechobee at its lowest level in six years

In this week’s news briefs, Kansas City, Missouri, installs its 100th mile of new water main since 2013, and OSHA fines a Massachusetts company $1.5 million for an incident that killed two sewer workers

In this week’s news briefs, officials are planning to release 9 million acre-feet of water from Lake Powell into the Colorado River, and a drought in South Florida could bring mandatory restrictions for water customers

In this week’s news briefs, the owner of a Boston company has been criminally charged stemming from an October work site incident that killed two workers, and Baltimore officials hope to boost water conservation efforts with a new online portal.

In this week’s news briefs, people are divided over an EPA guideline that would increase the radioactive contamination levels allowed in drinking water for a temporary period following a disaster, and Massachusetts utilities are forced to tap into emergency water resources to deal with drought.

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