The label on Aquafina water bottles will soon be changed to spell out that the drink comes from the same source as tap water, the brand's owner PepsiCo said Friday. A group called Corporate Accountability International has been pressuring bottled water sellers to curb what it calls misleading marketing practices. Aquafina is the single biggest bottled water brand, and its bottles are now labeled "P.W.S." The new labels will spell out "public water source."

A study into a distant white dwarf could help us learn more about the future fate of the Earth – and it could be a violent one. By Carole Mundell.

A group of environmental organizations sued the US Forest Service on Tuesday, claiming that it allowed Nestlé to illegally divert millions of gallons of water from California's San Bernadino National Forest to use for Arrowhead brand bottled water while the state struggles through a historic drought.

For the past four years, journalist Victoria Lautman has been photographing an overlooked feature of Indian architectural history: the stepwell.

Where the Colorado River falls from the snow-capped Rocky Mountains into the arid U.S. Southwest, lies Lake Powell. A severe drought in recent years, combined with the tapping of the lake's water at what many consider to be an unsustainable level, has reduced its levels to only about 42 percent of its capacity, according to the U.S. space agency NASA.

A new study finds that the Sierra Nevada snowpack is at its lowest level since around 1500.

Across California this summer, residents have been racking up water conservation numbers that defy expectations; a 27% reduction in June, followed by 31.3% in July.

Just Water is trying to get rid of some of the most wasteful packaging in the worldand wants to remind you that tap water is just as good.

The state says the company has been illegally tapping critically dry springs.

One Iowa utility is sick of sky-high nitrate levels in tap water—so it's taking action.

Israel, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Spain, Greece, and Chile are all headed towards dangerous levels of water stress.

Members of the Winnemem Wintu tribe in California are bracing for one of their biggest environmental justice struggles yet.

How much water does California’s oil and gas industry actually use? We still don’t know, despite a 2014 law signed by Governor Jerry Brown that went into effect this year requiring companies to report on all water produced, used and disposed of by oilfield operations.

​When Dean Spatz began his introduction-to-engineering-design class as a sophomore at Dartmouth in 1963, reverse osmosis, the process of filtering water through a semipermeable membrane, was only four years old. Working with a team, Spatz used RO to create a prototype for turning undrinkable brackish water into a potable liquid. The commercial applications were obvious, and Spatz dedicated the rest of his time at Dartmouth to developing the nascent technology.

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Communities in Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona struggle to make sense of mixed messages and a lack of communication from the federal agency.By Caty Enders.

The internet scoffed again this week: “Six dollars for a bottle of water with asparagus in it? Whole Foods has gone too far.” But the bougie grocery chain is doing God’s work by ripping off the foolish.

Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair are once again glowing neon green in NASA’s latest satellite images, amid forecasts that this year’s algal bloom would be one of the most severe in recent years.

To sell your artisanal products in Brooklyn these days, you need a good story. Meet the Timmy Brothers, a fictional Brooklyn pair who have "a thirst for helping people become less thirsty."

There are new signs of life in Nolin Creek, a branch of Junction Creek that flows through the Donovan area of Sudbury. “These are the first reported sightings of fish in Nolin Creek since at least the early 1990s.”