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The Hoback area has been dogged by high nitrate levels for years. The two-year-old Hoback Water and Sewer District has narrowed in on its plans to provide clean drinking water. Pl

The Desert Knolls Wash project in Apple Valley includes several improvements and modifications to a segment of the wash, including stormwater mitigation.

Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The researchers found nanoplastics were more concentrated by coastlines and near the water’s surface, but they detected the pollutant as far down as 4,500 meters.

Minneapolis has installed hundreds of rain gardens, tree trenches and other green infrastructure in recent years, aiming to reduce flood risks and clean up stormwater before it reaches the city’s lakes and rivers. On the city’s south side, nearly 200 gardens were built along Grand Avenue in 2022 and more than 100 along Bryant Avenue in 2023.

Wings2Water, an environmental nonprofit focused on water quality in the Mississippi River watershed, has announced three grant recipients for 2025. The

Balancing the amount of cheesecake consumption using this kind of trade works in a similar way to water quality trading, which looks to reduce pollution in the environment— in theory. It gets a lot more complicated than cheesecake. “One entity removes ...

The annual accounts for the year to end March, arguably the toughest in Thames’s history as a privatised utility, show that Thames Water has slumped to a £1.65 billion annual loss and saw its debt mountain balloon to £16.79 billion.

Thames Water will "take at least a decade to turn around", its boss has said, as the struggling company posted huge annual losses. Thames reported a loss of £1.65bn for the year to March, in which its debt pile climbed to £16.8bn.