Rain gardens help reduce the amount of water flowing over land and into storm drains, which can prevent flooding and erosion.

As Colorado River states race to finish a deal, water users face a resource altered by drought and climate change.

Digging ditches or adding pipes and drains to redirect stormwater onto a neighbor's property could land you in hot water.

Nitrate pollution is likely to force more water-use restrictions. Iowa’s problems are uniquely severe: It has plenty of water, but bans on car washing and lawn watering underscore the state’s long ...

In an analysis of the best available Earth systems models, Northeastern researchers found that by the turn of the next ...

A recent report found that all Lake Ontario beaches in the Rochester area exceeded healthy levels of bacteria on at least one ...

As ice, snow and slush melt way, the runoff water carries the materials into the nearby environment. That runoff eventually makes its way into streams, rivers and, often, drinking water sources.