Lentic systems, including lakes, reservoirs, wetlands, and ponds, are critical resources that play a major role in global hydrologic and biogeochemical cycles 1,2. Water bodies are sensitive to land ...
Water scarcity is a global issue that disproportionately affects small-scale farmers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Through geospatial analysis, we estimated that less than 37% of ...
The Edmonson County Water Treatment Plant in Wax, Kentucky on May 30, 2023. Seth Petersen was at his grandmother’s funeral, and his phone wouldn’t stop ringing. Three hours away in the village of Luck ...
In the United States today, most citizens expect to have access to low-cost, high-quality drinking water at their taps. While the U.S. drinking water supply is superior to water supplies in many parts ...
A lot can go wrong in a large urban water system. Pumps malfunction. Valves break. Pipes leak. Even when the system is functioning properly, water can sit in pipes for long periods of time. Water ...
A regional water system allows small towns to pool money and customers, providing more revenue to maintain the system and keep the water clean, boosters say. With pipes breaking and germs threatening ...
KEYSTONE, W.Va. — Donna Dickerson’s heart would sink every time she’d wake up, turn on the faucet in her mobile home and hear the pipes gurgling. Sometimes it would happen on a day when her mother, ...
LEITCHFIELD, Ky. — Nathan Taylor is the lead operator of a small water treatment plant in Wax, Kentucky, where the equipment is outdated and at capacity, and maintenance is constant. The hardest part ...
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