San Diego Coastkeeper's 2025 Mission Bay Water Quality Monitoring Report has found that pollution levels remain high in ...

Parts of North America are poised to become “hotspots of water scarcity” within decades, partly because pollutants will make some water sources harder to use, scientists warned on Tuesday, urging ...

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Before Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, U.S. factories and cities could pipe their pollution directly into waterways. Rivers, including the Potomac in Washington, smelled of raw sewage and ...

The nonprofit Delaware Center for the Inland Bays gave the Inland Bays a “D” rating – again – in the 2021 State of the Bays report released Monday. “Years of accumulated nutrient pollution and habitat ...

Efforts to clean up Chesapeake Bay, the largest U.S. estuary, date to the 1980s, but pollution reduction targets did not become mandatory until 2010, with not all states in its watershed signing on to ...

South Dakota moved its Surface Water Quality Assessment to an online presentation and dashboard. Supporters praise usability, while critics say analysis and context were cut.

Three Hawaii beaches made a national top-10 list for high bacterial counts exceeding recreational health standards.