New Mexico is a battleground in the fight over once public waterways, sparking fears it could set a national precedent

Millions of visitors come to Grand Canyon National Park, one of the seven natural wonders of the world and the most visited national park in the western United States. However, very few ever get to experience the Grand Canyon by way of the Colorado River.

Ángela Díaz stood on a rock ledge above a creek called Caño Piedras and pointed out an unassuming olive-colored plant growing below. Macarenia clavigera, she said, is the key to the future of this remote region in central Colombia. When the rains come in May, the rivers will rise and the plant will turn a brilliant red. “This plant has the peculiar quality of turning distinct colors,” she said. “You can see it from May to November.”

Water covers downtown streets after the Ohio River flooded in Louisville, February 26, 2018.

Travel the length of the Nile with BBC News to find out how a new dam being built in Ethiopia is threatening to cause a serious rift with neighbouring countries Egypt and Sudan.

Metro lines and stations have been closed after France's wettest January for more than 100 years.

The slender, delicate stream flows through the Mojave, giving life to plants and animals found nowhere else in the world.

Around 90 percent of the plastic polluting our oceans comes from just ten rivers, a new study has shown.

In the 29 years that towboat captain Joe Gray has worked flotillas of barges up and down the Ohio River, he has witnessed the decline at the heart of industrial America in what is known as the country's Rust Belt. By Chris Kenning, photography by Brian Snyder.

Does a river have rights? Indeed, according to a new lawsuit. As outlandish as the case seems to many observers, it may be laying the groundwork for something bigger. By Chris Bennett. (Nov. 6, 2017)

In the rapidly modernizing, constantly churning city of Nanjing, China, there is a legendary bridge, four miles long, where day after day, week after week, the desperate and melancholy and tormented come to end their lives. Most end up in the Yangtze River, 130 feet below. But some do not meet their maker. They meet someone else. They are pulled back from the brink--sometimes violently--by an odd and unlikely angel. By Michael Paterniti.

Up to 95 per cent of the plastic polluting the world's oceans comes from just 10 rivers, including the Ganges, new research has found. While eight of these 10 river systems are in Asia, two are in Africa. The findings published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology showed that large rivers play a particularly large role - not only because they also carry a comparatively large volume of waste on account of their larger discharge.

A journey from the source of the Nile in central Africa to its mouth near Cairo, charting the problems faced by the river and those who depend on it.

A lawsuit could upend environmental law, possibly allowing the Rocky Mountains or the deserts of Nevada to sue individuals, corporations and governments over pollution or depletion.

Nestled upon the banks of the River Severn lies the Shropshire town of Ironbridge, a modest Victorian settlement with a world-changing history.

The vanishing of an iconic river creature in Alabama poses terrifying questions about the water we swim in and fish in and drink. (Jul 24, 2017)

A Points South essay from the Summer 2017 issue.

The vast amount of waste water produced by fracking can contaminate rivers, lakes and other waterways with radioactive material and hormone-affecting chemicals, according to new research. The study tested sediments and groundwater downstream of a treatment plant in Pennsylvania that was designed to make the water used as part of the fracking process fit for release into the environment.

Guardian India correspondent Michael Safi takes a journey along the Yamuna river. Stretching 855 miles (1,375km) across the north of the country, at its source in the Himalayas its water is crystal clear.

Far below the surface of the sea, the seabed is being scoured by rivers of sediment that can flow thousands of miles from land.