Saving water should never become a public concern only in times of drought when water is undeniably scarce. The world water supply is finite. Every drop of water wasted is a drop less in a wild and scenic river, a drop less of a needed salmon run. Every drop of water that circles a drain unnecessarily wastes energy through the manufacturing of chemicals in the cycle of sewage treatment.

The world water supply is dwindling, and yet it is only water supply we will ever have. The water we use i...

I have a confession to make. This morning as I ran the water for my shower, I got distracted and accidentally let it run way longer than necessary to heat up. Visions of 3rd world children missing school to walk for hours to retrieve [probably dirty] water spun through my head as I then took the shortest shower known to mankind.

So naturally, the first thing I did when I got to work was take a browse through the WaterSense website, a gold-mine of water efficiency resources. I stumbled across...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A Canadian company plans to recycle water used in hydraulic fracturing — or fracking — in the Fayetteville Shale and sell it to the companies that use the process to drill for natural gas.

The company also has a permit to discharge the water into Cadron Creek, a recreational waterway that runs from Cleburne County to Faulkner County before flowing into the Arkansas River.

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A study on plant productivity that said drought and global warming were killing off plants worldwide is now being questioned by scientists, according to research published Thursday.

In the study published in the journal Science last year, researchers Maosheng Zhao and Steven Running of the University of Montana used NASA satellite data to show that productivity declined slightly from 2000-2009.

Those findings contradicted previous studies from the 1980s and 1990s that showed warmer temper...

Thousands of pharmaceutical products, which are increasingly diverse and increasingly used, are "partially" metabolised by the human body. Those that remain unchanged pass into the waste water treated at sewage plants, which are not always designed to eliminate synthetic organic compounds.

"Sometimes, some substrates can even revert to the original drug within the water treatment plant itself, increasing the concentration of the drug in the effluent discharged, as is the case with carbamazep...