The World Health Organization reports that a do-it-yourself technique of disinfecting water with sunlight and plastic soft-drink bottles could save hundreds of thousands of lives a year.
Third-party testing organization NSF International is shifting rules and regulations governing portions of the standard microbiological water treatment technologies.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have ordered the River Ridge Development Co. and construction company Hartford Homes, Windsor, Colo., to stop illegal earthmoving activities on the site of a residential development in Larimer County, Colo.
Pinellas County, Fla., is offering rebates to homeowners who build shallow wells for irrigation in an effort to conserve drinking water during one of the region's worst droughts.
The Technical Support Working Group (TSWG), in cooperation with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has sponsored the development of two software tools that address water supply and water source contamination and consequence management.
The California Department of Water Resources agreed to raise its annual water allocations to its contractors by 5 percent due to increased precipitation over March throughout the state.
A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court agreed with farmers in Madera County, Calif., that even the government must sometimes pay for damage caused by water projects.
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