The Department of Environment is trying to find the source of triazine herbicides detected in the Coal River in southern Tasmania. The Greens' Tim Morris says it is the sixth time in a year that a pesticide has been found in the Coal River.

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told citizens Wednesday to limit their showers to three minutes because the country is having problems supplying water and electricity.

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Sacramento banned bottled water from its City Council meetings last year, but over the summer it welcomed a Nestle Waters plant that would churn out millions of those bottles every week.

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The typical suburban home is an underestimated source of water pollution, according to research presented today at the American Chemical Society meeting in Washington, D.C. The reason? Lawns and gardens

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To Pee or Not To Pee (Poll)

...that is the question. TV ads in Brazil are encouraging Brazilians to save water. Brazilian environmental group SOS Mata Atlantica is trying to bring a serious matter to the fore front by being playful about it. Xixi no banho, Pee in the Shower.

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Our household water use accounts for only 6 percent of the water that we consume.This article explores our "water footprint."

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Do you think about WATER? Do you think of it as clean and taking care of itself no matter what you do to it? Do you think anything you do has an impact on the water you use?

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Imagine Nevada's Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States, as a great sand pit, and imagine the population of the western United States as a colossal ostrich burying its head in the pit.

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A couple of water and energy saving tips with a brief bakground on Earth Day.

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A committee of Sacramento City Council members voted Tuesday to support a draft water conservation ordinance to more tightly control landscape irrigation, responsible for more than half of the city's water demand.

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California's latest mountain snow survey shows the state is virtually certain to register a third straight drought year.

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"Tuesday, I was driving around in that pouring rain," related the Sacramento landscaper, "and there were homes with their sprinklers on. What a waste!"

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As we await President-elect Obama's new administration, the most environmentally damaging presidency in American history nears its end. President Bush leaves in his wake thousands of miles of polluted and degraded waterways across America.

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North Carolina house meets Watersense standards. Reportedly first house in nation to achieve such status.

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Sri Lanka's celebrated twelfth-century king Parakramabahu reportedly said, "not a single drop of water received from rain should be allowed to escape into the sea without being utilized for human benefit."

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ONE recent morning, Ruth Bancroft, who turned 100 on Tuesday, was working at her desk, poring over plant catalogs and making a list of bearded iris bulbs to order: Above the Clouds, Wine and Roses, Busy Being Blue, Crater Lake Blue. She picked 25 varieties in all.

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The Issue: Legionnaire's (Disease) America, consider yourself warned.

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Anne Hartridge and her husband, Matt George, decided to stop watering their lawn and switch to less water-intensive landscaping.

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The age-old practice of turning the soil before planting a new crop is a leading cause of farmland degradation. Many farmers are thus looking to make plowing a thing of the past

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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today declared a statewide drought and ordered the state Department of Water Resources to quickly transfer water to areas with the most severe water shortages.

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Despite the fact that Central Florida is in a severe drought, a subdivision is threatening to fine homeowners who do not water their lawns enough. See more irresistible news  

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The idea behind Xeriscapes is to create gardens with a rational water use, to avoid any waste of water, especially in Mediterranean and warm temperate climates. Saving water however is not the only objective of Xeriscaping.

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Professor John Anthony Allan from King's College London and the School of Oriental and African Studies has been named the 2008 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate.

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Envirnonmentalists and those suffering drought and low budget.... this article provides agreat way to treat your plants more tenderly.

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Drought often conspires with man-made disasters. Macedonia experienced its second worst dry spell during the civil strife of last year. Benighted Afghanistan is having one now - replete with locusts.

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