Water is an essential requirement for life on Earth — it supports everything from cellular processes to ecosystems. Five papers published in ACS journals provide new insights to help protect natural ...

This study develops a spatial "source-flow-use" accounting framework to quantify the supply and allocation of high-quality water resources (HQWRs) from ecological conservation areas. Using a national ...

The arid desert landscape of Death Valley is not the obvious place to find water. Yet it’s here, in one of the planet’s hottest and driest places, that Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

In Guatemala’s Western Highlands, researchers found that the drinking water people trust most may actually be the riskiest.

PHOENIX — The Central Arizona Project (CAP) delivers Colorado River water to about 80% of Arizona’s population through a canal system that stretches more than 300 miles. It begins at the Colorado ...