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Water Canada Live Science: How Much Water Do You Really Need To Drink? You are what you eat — but if you want to get literal about i...

If You Collected All Of Earth’s Water Into A Sphere, How Big Would It Be? -- io9 Imagine the Earth in your mind's eye. Now round up all ...

'Huge' Water Resource Exists Under Africa -- BBC Scientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservo...

(Click on Image to Enlarge) Water Wars Between Countries Could Be Just Around The Corner, Davey Warns -- The Guardian Energy secretary tells...

Researchers have examined 3.8 billion year old minerals from Greenland which are derived from the Earth’s primordial oceans in order to appr...

From New Scientist: The water supplying 80 per cent of the world's population is exposed to "high levels of threat". That'...

From The BBC: About 80% of the world's population lives in areas where the fresh water supply is not secure, according to a new global a...

Global map of groundwater depletion, measured in cubic meters of water per year. (Credit: Image courtesy of American Geophysical Union) From...

From Discovery News: As clean as the drinking water is in the United States compared to other countries, it still contains trace amounts of ...

Freezing depends on impurities (Vilhjalmur Ingi Vilhjalmsson/Getty) From New Scientist: HOT water sometimes freezes faster than cold water -...

A recent study suggests that fixtures could leach lead into drinking water, even if the devices received passing grades from standard testin...

"Water: The Epic Struggle For Wealth, Power, And Civilization:" Water As The New Oil -- Seattle Times Author Steven Solomon's ...

Smos builds up its map data in strips as it sweeps around the Earth From BBC: Europe's latest Earth observation satellite has returned i...

Crop irrigation. The largest uses of fresh surface water were power generation and irrigation. (Credit: USDA - Natural Resources Conservatio...

From The BBC: A European satellite is set to provide major new insights into how water is cycled around the Earth. The Smos spacecraft will ...

An old tire lies on a dry stretch of the San Joaquin River below Gravelly Ford, near Mendota in Fresno County. (Photograph by Michael Macor/...

ELIXIR OF LIFE: Finding evidence of water in the solar system and beyond is an important signpost for the presence of life. Liquid water is ...

Hustle and Flow -- Audubon Magazine As water becomes increasingly scarce, we may have to charge for every drop. In a now-famous interview wi...

Much of the water used in paddy fields is pumped from underground. From The BBC: Parts of India are on track for severe water shortages, acc...

From The Wall Street Journal: Process to Make Seawater Drinkable Gains Traction, but Environmentalists Object to Heavy Energy Use, Harm to M...