The southwestern desert, with its arid environment, was a most inhospitable environment in which to live. For centuries the early native inhabitants living along the Colorado River found innovative...
Category: H2O Infrastructure
In the last century, the U.S. led the world in Dam building for many purposes, including hydropower, irrigation, flood control, and water storage. While dams can benefit society, they also cause...
The country of India is suffering the worst water crisis in its history with some 600,000 people affected by water shortages and things don't look better. What are the reasons for India's water...
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, more than 20 percent of land in the western U.S. was determined to be in an "extreme or exceptional drought," called a Mega-drought has been in existence for 22...
The special taste of hose water that everyone I grew up with, seems to remember had more to do with that special time when we were kids but could have been an indicator of contamination by a number...
Groundwater could be an hour old at a shallow or moderate depth, it may be 100 years old, at a greater depth, or after having flowed long distances from places of entry, the water may even have been...