Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday began signing bills in the just-passed five-bill water package. He is expected to sign the centerpiece, an $11.14 billion general obligation bond scheduled to go before voters on Nov. 2, 2010, early next week.

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The human liver fluke, a freshwater parasite endemic to areas of Thailand, Japan, and Siberia, triggers human liver cancer by creating harmful cell mutations, encouraging tumor growth, and stopping normal cell death, according to a study released yesterday in the journal PLoS Pat …

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WASHINGTON - The House gave final approval Thursday to a $33.5 billion energy and water bill, a snap compared with a future Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta package some lawmakers now envision.

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FRESNO - It all starts Thursday with a gentle surge of water to be released from Friant Dam, northeast of Fresno, into the San Joaquin River.

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A health advisory has been issued for swimmers in Polk County after a 10-year-old died of an infection of the central nervous system.

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NEW YORK -- When major ice sheets thaw, they release enough fresh water to disrupt ocean currents world-wide and make the planet wobble with the uneven weight of so much meltwater on the move.

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A Million Boat Float...a 'Two Day' protest in California

There are numerous articles posted here and all over the web about 'Water' use/users here in California. It is a growing concern and one that is not going to be easily settled.

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California's degraded rivers and voracious water demand are not just a local problem. They threaten to exterminate a unique population of Pacific killer whales, federal scientists have found.

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The state would receive 10,000 acres initially, but it would have to wait seven years for an additional 30,000 acres. That's a long time, and a pretty sweet deal for U.S. Sugar.

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Tap water has never had so many fans. From neighboring states to distant countries, admirers have been traveling here to see – and drink – what's coming from the faucets in thousands of southern California homes.

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Even with all of the water in the earth's oceans, we desalinate less than half a percent of it to help meet the world's freshwater demands. We currently use on the order of 4,000 cubic kilometers of freshwater a year, and overall there's enough water to go around.

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It's a colossal failure of political foresight that water has not emerged as an important issue in the US Presidential campaign. The links between oil, war, and US foreign policy are well known.

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The world does not lack the knowledge about how to build a water-secure future; it lacks the political will.

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A traditional windmill which drives a pump: that is the simple concept behind the combination of windmill/reverse osmosis developed by the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in The Netherlands.

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What a wonderful story of someone who say something and realized they could make a difference in people's lives. replytoj001

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By 2025, an estimated 3.5 billion people will live in areas facing severe water shortages -- and providing them potable water would be a challenge that may be best met by nuclear-powered desalination. This was one of the solutions presented at the recent Trombay Symposium on Des …

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Potentially huge battles over water are looming in the Great Lakes region as cities, towns and states near and far fight for access to the world's largest body of fresh surface water, all of it residing in the five Great Lakes.

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Scientists sometimes refer to the effect a hotter world will have on this country's fresh water as the other water problem, because global warming more commonly evokes the specter of rising oceans submerging our great coastal cities.

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An angling record that had stood for 85 years was broken when a housewife hooked a giant catfish. At 66lb (29.9kg), Bev Street's catch was two pounds heavier than the salmon which had held the record for the heaviest freshwater fish landed by a woman in Britain.

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Water levels in the three upper Great Lakes are wavering far below normal, and experts expect Lake Superior, the northernmost lake, to reach a record low in the next two months, according to data from the international bodies that monitor the Great Lakes, the world's largest fr …

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Deep beneath the desert and scrub of northern Darfur, Sudan, lies a vast hidden cache of water, experts said this week.

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Two architects pursuing PhDs at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have devised a low-tech way to collect dew from the air and turn it into fresh water.

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Warmer temperatures allow mosquitoes to thrive and parasites to mature inside them before being transmitted to humans. As average temperatures increase, so have the instances of potentially fatal mosquito-borne illnesses.

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Great Lakes Wiki combines citizen journalism, collective intelligence, and technologies of cooperation:

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Glaciers are quickly disappearing from the Alps and will be all but gone by 2050, a climate expert said Monday.

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