In the late 2000s, scientists looking deep into space discovered the largest known water reservoir in the universe inside a quasar, orbiting a supermassive black hole.

Exclusive: Guardian investigation reveals testing regimes similar to that of Flint were in place in major cities including Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia

Once a natural resource, water is now big business. The time is coming when human beings will wage war over water. By Shekhar Kapur.

If water just keeps getting recycled by a closed system on Earth, how did it get here in the first place? Where did the cycle begin?

Could the end be near for one of the West’s biggest dams?

Ambitious scheme to channel water from regions with a surplus to drought-prone areas could begin in days, but Bangladesh has raised concerns

Backers of a Hood River County ballot measure to block a proposed water bottling plant in Cascade Locks are accusing Nestlé of illegally hiding its contributions to a political action committee opposing the measure. They say they will be filing...

A major report on the status and future threats to the world’s 286 transboundary river basins has been released by a consortium of institutions led by the UNEP-DHI Center for Water and Environment and including the Earth Institute’s Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN).

When water is purified, 'pixie dust' is added back in.

Pennsylvania residents are fighting Nestle's attempts to construct a water extraction operation in their community -- and winning.

Two state officials and a city employee were accused of covering up evidence of lead contamination.Two officials at the state Department of Environmental Quality are charged with misleading the federal Environmental Protection Agency about whether Flint was using the treatment needed to control lead levels after the city switched its water supply in 2014.

Some regions in India’s west are suffering from the worst drought on record with over 1,100 farmer suicides reported. By Harsha Vadlamani.

Classified U.S. cables between American diplomats show a mounting concern by global political and business leaders that water shortages could spark unrest across the world, with dire consequences. By Nathan Halverson. (Apr. 11)

Detroit's hard-pressed school system has found elevated levels of lead and copper in nearly a third of its elementary schools, contamination that one expert says could be found nationwide, wherever school authorities spend the time and money to look.

The first national lead poisoning crisis in 1930s Baltimore offers lessons for policymakers dealing with the current water disaster in Flint, Michigan.

The massacre of protesting farmers in Kidapawan [Philippines]

Our nation's water crisis requires radical solutions. By Laura Orlando.

The flow of the legendary Ganges river appears to be receding, sparking concerns about India's rising water crisis, writes Soutik Biswas.