"A practical and scalable solution." Scientists make incredible breakthrough to pull clean drinking water from the sea: 'An ...

Unsafe levels of salt water may reach many New Orleans-area drinking water intakes by mid-October, forcing officials to scramble for barges that will bring in fresh water from further up the ...

The vast majority—97 percent—of the earth’s water is salt water found in our oceans. Another two percent is stored in ice caps or glaciers. That leaves just one percent of all water on earth for ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Aquifers deep underground supply the drinking water for most of the capital region. As the freshwater is pumped out of the ground, salt water begins to creep closer to those ...

Hilton Head residents may take their ability to turn on a faucet and immediately be greeted with fresh, clean water for granted. After all, Beaufort County is more water than land. But walk along the ...

MYRTLE GROVE, La. (Louisiana Illuminator) – Construction has begun on a saltwater sill near Myrtle Grove to help mitigate the effects of saltwater intrusion up the Mississippi River. The U.S. Army ...

For months, Louisiana oyster farmer Mitch Jurisich, Jr. watched the Mississippi as an invisible surge of Gulf of Mexico salt water crept up the tail end of the river, twisting along levees through ...

If you live in the New Orleans metro, you've likely heard of the notorious saltwater wedge that's making its way up the Mississippi River and threatening the area's water supply. The wedge has ...

Salt used to de-ice roads is the single biggest source of salt in the U.S. Human activities are making the globe saltier, specifically in our soils, fresh water and air, according to a study released ...