Browsing: Water

On a small, gently rocking research boat anchored just offshore in Chesapeake Bay, I lowered a sterile plastic bottle into the water to collect a sample…

Thames Water spent at least £136m on the effort to secure emergency funding over 12 months, according to a leaked document that suggests costs outstripped the…

For years, scientists have been looking for signs of liquid water just beneath the surface of Mars. The problem, though, is that the observations from various…

South West Water has agreed to pay a £24m penalty for illegal sewage discharges into the environment from its treatment works.The regulator for the water and…

Yorkshire Water has introduced hosepipe restrictions after the region recorded its driest spring in 132 years.Yorkshire received just 15cm of rainfall between February and June, less…

Eight police officers linger with their backs to the two-hectare (five-acre) site known as Stocamine. The place is nondescript in the morning drizzle: two mine shafts,…

Lenders trying to take control of Thames Water are attempting to thwart environmental campaigners by asking the government to block them from pursuing high court claims.Creditors…