Standard testing has shown excessive levels of lead contamination in water flowing through the taps in millions of American households. The main reason for this is...
The international charity Water for Kids is celebrating 20 years of supporting communities in low income countries, by helping them access safe drinking water. Water for...
More than a billion people all over the world, or one-sixth of the human population, do not have access to safe drinking water. In those areas,...
You turn on the faucet when you brush your teeth, cook dinner, wash fruit and vegetables, and pour yourself a glass of cold water. But if...
Actor and clean water advocate Mark Ruffalo has written to Northern Ireland environment minister Mark Durkan as the Government has given permission for unconventional oil and...
Ongoing research suggests fracking is taking place at much shallower depths than first thought. Authors say there is no evidence of water contamination, but more research...
Citizens of British Columbia awoke to the thunderous noise of over a billion gallons of mining waste water cascading through Hazeltine Creek earlier this week, polluting...
The state of California is poised to shut down 11 oil and gas waste injection sites as fears rise concerning the injection of polluted waste water...
China’s largest oil firm is being blamed for the contamination of drinking water that has led to over 2.4m residents scrambling to buy bottled water. It...
Lincolnshire is set to receive £30m investment from French-based oil and gas firm Total SA to investigate the county’s shale gas potential. Hydraulic fracking, or fracking, is...
Fracking poses a “serious threat” of water contamination, including in drinking water, according to a report that also claims that 280 billion gallons of radioactive waste...
US Secretary of State John Kerry has said that the existence of climate change is undeniable but it is not too late to prevent some of...
The president of a Pacific island has said that western countries should do more to fight climate change as sea levels rise and extreme weather threatens...
Santa Clara Valley Water District has withdrawn investment in fossil fuels companies over concern about threats to water supplies caused by global warming. The US water...
Hundreds of millions of people will become displaced from their homes because of climate change, while the populations of one-third of common land animals will severely...