ANTIOCH – Antioch has finally turned on the taps of its long-awaited brackish water desalination plant, which is expected to help the city safeguard its water supply for decades to come. The $160 ...

North Carolina officials are warning people with cuts or open wounds not to swim in saltwater or brackish water after three people died of an infection in July. The state Department of Health and ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — An influx of salt water in the Mississippi River, which feeds southeastern Louisiana's drinking water supplies, is once again creeping up the waterway. For the third year in a row, ...

Brackish water, also sometimes termed brack water, is water occurring in a natural environment having more salinity than freshwater, but not as much as seawater. It may result from mixing seawater ...

NEWARK, Calif. (KGO) -- As more communities impose water use restrictions because of the drought, the California Coastal Commission is likely to vote on a controversial proposal later this year that ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. As New Mexico’s droughts grow longer and more frequent under climate change, depleting water supplies, a mostly ...

Titusville is inching into one of the most controversial water debates around: whether treated wastewater should ever end up ...

New analysis led by a University of Wyoming researcher shows that brackish or salty groundwater could replace fresh water to cool coal- and natural gas-fired power plants, although it comes at a cost.

New Mexico faces significant and increasing future water scarcity because of its arid climate, over- allocation of existing supplies and likely future droughts. Traditional freshwater sources such as ...

FILE - In this aerial photo a tugboat pushing barges navigates around sandbars amid low water levels on the Mississippi River in Livingston Parish, La., Sept. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) ...