Flint, Michigan, tried to save money on water. Now its children have lead poisoning. Joe Posner explains.

The Australian mining town of Broken Hill is preparing for a future that doesn’t depend on silver and zinc, but there’s one resource it won’t be able to live without: water. By James Paton.

With severe droughts and rising populations, we will have to accept “toilet-to-tap” schemes. Cities like Perth in Australia are leading the way.

Every story I have ever told has a kind of breach to it, I think. You could say that my writing isn’t quite right. That all the beginnings have endings in them. By Lidia Yuknavitch.

Major corporations are fighting the National Park Service's efforts to ban the sale of bottled water in national parks. By Adam Hudson.

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Snyder apologizes on Tuesday for decisions that caused the Michigan city’s water supply to be poisoned by lead as top state environment official resigns. By Ryan Felton.

In places around the world, supplies of groundwater are rapidly vanishing. As aquifers decline and wells begin to go dry, people are being forced to confront a growing crisis.

Humans have been trying to wrangle Earth’s freshwater since the dawn of civilization. Case in point: the 3,000-year-old Sadd Al-Kafra embankment dam in Egypt. Things like dams and irrigation obviously affect local waterways, but it’s much harder to figure out how those local changes influence freshwater supplies worldwide.

In 1953, California sacrificed a town to stave its own thirst. But the act was futile, and the state is thirstier than ever. By Lauren Markham.

Researchers from an international collaboration create the world's first groundwater resource map. They also estimated the world's current total supply and the ages of different segments of these resources.

The contrast between strict enforcement on some struggling to conserve water and unchecked profligacy in places like Bel Air has unleashed anger and indignation. By Ian Lovett.

The water that supplies aquifers and wells that billions of people rely on around the world is, from a practical perspective, mostly a non-renewable resource that could run out in many places, a new Canadian-led study has found. While many people may think groundwater is replenished by rain and melting snow the way lakes and rivers are, underground water is actually renewed much more slowly.

A new calculation fixes the total amount of groundwater on the planet, held in rock and soil below our feet, at 23 million cubic km.

A hypothetical look at the day in the life of an average American without access to clean water.

In 2013 and 2014, the City of Sacramento tested a new chemical at its main water treatment plant, and an ABC10 investigation found the substances that formed in the city's drinking water system as a result, could cause cancer. Testing of the chemical called aluminum chlorohydrate, or ACH, almost immediately sent up warning signs that something was seriously wrong, and even though those red flags continued for an entire year, the city didn't stop and...

Across California, after years of punishing drought, reservoirs that normally fill canals and make crops bloom are greatly depleted or even empty. Some say that getting more water into storage by building more dams is key. But dams also create problems for native fish, and some see them as a waste of money that may not provide sufficient supply. Special correspondent Spencer Michels reports.

Many informed customers choose bottled water because they are concerned about the quality of tap water, we are now learning that in many cases, bottled water is actually not any better than tap water.

The coming water wars.