Imprisoned people are forced to drink and bathe with water they describe as over-chlorinated, slimy, and foul-smelling.

María, a 41-year-old Indigenous Maya woman from Guatemala lives without access to running water. Three times a week, she makes a two-hour round trip to collect water from a well or ravine, sometimes ...

LAWRENCE — There is no life without water — therefore access to water might be considered a human right. However, that has not always been the case in American water law. A new book explores of case ...

Did you know that in California, there’s a human right to affordable water? In 2012, Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 685, adding this language to the state Water Code: “every human being has the ...

MILAN (Reuters) - Access to water is a basic human right and should be high on the agenda of climate change talks in Poland next week, the head of an Italian advocacy group said on Friday. With more ...

Months after a container ship went down off the coast of India, toxic pollution still contaminates the water and plastic pellets still wash ashore. Meanwhile, cleanup efforts continue, fishing ...