One inch of rain pouring down on an average-sized residential roof creates 748 gallons of stormwater runoff, according to the King County Wastewater Treatment Division. After collecting debris, waste ...

Last October I found myself walking across a golden field on the outskirts of Rome. Large bales of hay dotted the landscape before me, a welcome site to those of us trotting across what would have ...

The basic idea of a cistern water system, which collects and stores water in or near a home, goes back centuries. In some parts of Western Asia, archeologists discovered lime plaster cisterns in the ...

Twelve-year-old Isabella Conway with art supplies in front of a mural she painted. Photo courtesy of the city of Hendersonville Press release from the city of Hendersonville: The City of ...

This story is part of a special series that explores the global water crisis. For more, visit National Geographic's Freshwater website. Memories of floodwaters in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward are ...