A prediction made by the winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in physics has come true.

A story of power, drought, migrant labor, and an insatiable drive to expand. By Mark Arax, photographs by Trent Davis Bailey, illustrations by Denise Nestor.

In Cape Town, South Africa, they're calling it "Day Zero" -- the day when the taps run dry. City officials had recently said that day would come on April 22. This week, they moved up the date to April 12. Cape Town is South Africa's second-largest city and a top international tourist draw. Now, residents play a new and delicate game of water math each day.

Indigenous communities are restoring abandoned dams, reservoirs and canals that date back over 3,000 years. By Thin Lei Win.

Drinking 'raw water' could cause raw diarrhea

With every toilet flush, we expose fish and other aquatic wildlife to the pharmaceuticals we're taking. By Reynard Loki.

Waste from a shoe factory has tainted groundwater in a Grand Rapids suburb. Some residents are skeptical of Michigan officials, who botched the response in Flint.

Seramic

Mike Olbinski

Seventy-one water systems in Michigan now have higher lead levels than the city of Flint, results of the most recent federally-required testing shows. Water sampling in Flint from January through June showed the city's 90th percentile for lead was at 7 parts per billion, far better than the last six months of 2016, but still higher than 92.6 percent of the 1,333 water systems regulated by the state Department of Environmental Quality.

No other incident during Standing Rock better illustrates the collaboration between police and private security in suppressing the NoDAPL movement. By Alleen Brown, Will Parrish, Alice Speri.

Three years after disastrous levels of lead were found in the Michigan city’s drinking water, the people of Flint are living — and fighting — a new nightmare. By Claire Ballentine and Ben Sklar.

The Havasupai are attempting to fight back against the operation of a uranium mine that they say could contaminate their sole water source. By Joanna Walters.

Ice, ice baby.

An unregulated borewell economy thrives through the dry summers in Osmanabad district of Marathwada, with agents and rig owners cashing in on the desperation of farmers to find water at any depth, any cost. By Parth M.N.

Sunlight-powered moisture-absorbing technologies are becoming economical. By Donna J. Nelson.

To call what is happening in Flint, Michigan a “water crisis” feels both exact and not. By Hanif Willis-Aburraqib. (May 26, 2017)

Searching for the sources of China’s great rivers. By Philip Ball.

Internal TigerSwan documents provide a detailed picture of how the mercenary firm surveilled Dakota Access Pipeline opponents and infiltrated protest camps. By Alleen Brown, Will Parrish, Alice Speri.

The Dakota Access Pipeline accrued costs to the tune of $15 million for law enforcement’s brutality, now we know who will be paying for it all.… By Ruth Hopkins.