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Byline: JOHN COX Recent data suggests the years-long decline in Kern farmland values may have finally bottomed out in certain portions of the county as farmers who sat out the [...]

Byline: Cannon Barnett Sep. 18Some 2,000 gallons of low-level, liquid radioactive waste are set to be shipped from the Hanford Site in Richland next year, and they might be passing [...]

Byline: Mary Shinn Colorado Water Court recently approved a plan that will allow two metro districts to use more groundwater to fuel growth east and northeast of Colorado Springs. Under [...]

Byline: Amanda Sullender May 28Free PFAS well testing has restarted on the West Plains as the EPA and state Department of Ecology determine the scope of contamination. Testing conducted by [...]

Byline: Amanda Sullender May 26Spokane County Commissioner Al French is proposing an ambitious plan to bring a new water source to the PFAS-contaminated West Plains possibly as soon as next [...]

Byline: Savannah Eller May 26Three Falcon Highlands Metropolitan District board members are facing a recall election this July over groundwater issues and what some community members believe is a developer [...]

Byline: Mary Shinn Mar. 3Cherokee Metro District resident Tim Bouma has replaced his refrigerator, dishwasher, pieces of his hot tub and other household appliances multiple times since 2005 because of [...]

Byline: Amanda Sullender Feb. 15As West Plains residents have learned more about how PFAS has seeped into their groundwater for decades, many are still in the dark about how much [...]

Byline: Amanda Sullender Jan. 21Launching a short film and a new website, the West Plains Water Coalition is raising awareness on chemical exposure in ground water and pushing public officials [...]

Byline: Sara J. Faqir Dec. 16AMMAN Jordan grapples with water scarcity, which is interconnected between rainfall and groundwater levels. The dynamics of how rainfall shapes groundwater levels across the Kingdom [...]

Byline: John Cox Nov. 22Two Bakersfield-based carrot giants have recently withdrawn from a controversial adjudication of groundwater rights in the Cuyama Valley, but it's unclear whether the actions will allow [...]

Byline: Scott Hewitt Nov. 7Legend once had it that Battle Ground Lake is bottomless. That's not true, but it's easy to see how such a myth might arise from the [...]

Byline: Donnie Johnston Oct. 24We really need a snowy winter because the groundwater situation is getting serious. Three of my farmer friends have been hauling water to their cattle for [...]

Byline: John Cox Jul. 8This hasn't just been a historic year for Kern County water delivery. The year 2023 has also been extraordinary for recharging aquifers that store local supplies [...]

Byline: Rana Tayseer Jun. 19AMMAN The Ministry of Water and Irrigation on Sunday expressed concern the increasing incidents of water thefts targeting groundwater wells and water networks, which pose a [...]

Byline: Lauren Ellenbecker Jun. 15The Washington Department of Ecology opened its public comment period through July 17 concerning the cleanup of an electrical heater facility that leaked chemicals into groundwater. [...]

Byline: Erica Smith May 18The process of covering 10 closed cells spanning 90 acres at the Decatur-Morgan County Regional Landfill in Trinity will begin soon as part of an effort [...]

Byline: James Mayse May 2The city's spring 'War on Potholes' got off to a slow start last week, as city street workers waited on asphalt to fix the hated holes. [...]

Mar. 1AMMAN The Ministry of Water and Irrigation on Wednesday concluded its awareness campaign to protect groundwater resources in Ajloun. The campaign falls within a technical cooperation programme for managing [...]

Byline: Lauren McDonald Feb. 14The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will host a community meeting Thursday to offer Glynn County residents a chance to learn the latest about clean-up activities at [...]

Byline: Brooke Nevins Feb. 3A long-awaited water treatment facility needed to remove toxic 'forever chemicals' from groundwater in Fountain is complete. City officials on Friday heralded the milestone during a [...]

Byline: Michael Hall Jan. 6Chris Road residents and others near a canal where an industrial chemical release killed hundreds of fish need not worry about their wells, but they should [...]

Oct. 27AMMAN Under the patronage of HRH Prince Hassan, a high-level roundtable discussion between the West Asia-North Africa (WANA) Institute, the Inter-Islamic Network in Water Resources Development and Management (INWRDAM) [...]

Byline: John Cox Oct. 24A deep, disappointment of an oil well that has sat idle for eight years near the Kern County border is finally getting some attention following its [...]

Oct. 20It is unusual that we find ourselves on the side of regulators, but it seems the Oregon Water Resources Department's cautious approach in granting permits for irrigation wells has [...]

Byline: Chris Hubbuch Oct. 5Dane County says an experimental technology involving bacteria has been used to clean up toxic forever chemicals at the Madison airport, though county officials have not [...]

Byline: Dick Mason Sep. 30LA GRANDE The future of the state of Oregon's groundwater allocation system, which involves wells, is cloudy, but the Oregon Department of Water Resources believes the [...]

Byline: Chris Hubbuch Sep. 14Armed with new data on potential health impacts, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is again attempting to regulate toxic 'forever chemicals' in the state's largest [...]

Byline: John Cox Sep. 4Hazardous materials cleanup work is expected to begin later this year at a plastics recycling operation next to Meadows Field Airport that state regulators worry may [...]

Byline: Chris Hubbuch Sep. 3More than four years after the state Department of Natural Resources warned of toxic 'forever' chemicals at former firefighter training sites near the Madison airport, city, [...]

Byline: Chris Hubbuch Aug. 17A state advisory board is again calling on Wisconsin leaders to take steps to protect the state's groundwater supply from contaminants including nitrate and hazardous 'forever [...]

Byline: Eric Fleischauer Aug. 3The former Brookhaven Middle School, now sporting no trespassing signs, broken and boarded-up windows and chemical monitoring equipment, will be demolished and replaced with green space, [...]

Byline: Andrew Dowd Jun. 8EAU CLAIRE Voices both for and against a proposal to bring a bottled water company to Eau Claire spoke Tuesday evening at a community discussion that [...]

Byline: Scott Weiser May 23The Environmental Protection Agency announced a settlement Monday with Xcel Energy over alleged violations of EPA coal-ash disposal guidelines at Xcel's Comanche power plant in Pueblo. [...]

Byline: Batool Ghaith May 9AMMAN The Miyahuna company has recommended installing ground tanks complete with a pump for citizens homes to ensure that water reaches them. Ibrahim Qubeilat, spokesperson for [...]

Byline: John Cox Apr. 30To the lingering question of what to do with woody ag waste and other forms of Central Valley biomass, carbon scientists and investors agree on an [...]

Byline: Colin Tiernan Apr. 5Forty -five years ago, a Spokane County business could truck its used industrial solvents and degreasers to the Colbert landfill and pour them into an open [...]

Byline: Chris Hubbuch Mar. 24A group seeking to block the military from stationing F-35 fighter jets in Madison is asking the Environmental Protection Agency to intervene. Safe Skies Clean Water [...]

Byline: Chris Hubbuch Mar. 23A group seeking to block the military from stationing F-35 fighter jets in Madison is asking the Environmental Protection Agency to intervene. Safe Skies Clean Water [...]

Mar. 19AMMAN The Jordan Valley Authority (JVA) on Saturday said it finished construction works of the Ibn Hammad Dam in the southern Jordan Valley. The dam has a total capacity [...]

Mar. 19AMMAN The Jordan Valley Authority (JVA) on Saturday said it finished construction on the Ibn HammadDam in the southern Jordan Valley. The dam has a total capacity of four [...]

Byline: Lauren McDonald Feb. 23The state Environmental Protection Division will soon take over monitoring of hazardous waste cleanup at a site in Brunswick. The EPD plans to issue a hazardous [...]

Feb. 21AMMAN The Water Ministry, in cooperation with other partners, on Monday launched an awareness campaign to protect groundwater resources. Deputising for Water Minister Mohammed Najjar, Ministry Secretary General Jihad [...]

Feb. 1The Maine Department of Environmental Protection has a tough road ahead in identifying land and groundwater contaminated with PFAS also known as 'forever chemicals.' Unhealthy levels have turned up [...]

Byline: Chris Hubbuch Jan. 13Under fire for not using environmental protection powers, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has scheduled a public meeting on plans to allow a factory farm [...]

Byline: Chris Hubbuch Jan. 12Under fire for not using environmental protection powers, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has scheduled a public meeting on plans to allow a factory farm [...]

Byline: Gordon Jackson Jan. 7A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling could affect a proposal by Twin Pines Minerals to mine near the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. The case between the [...]

Byline: Lauren McDonald Dec. 30The Glynn Environmental Coalition is calling attention to contradictory reports on the ongoing risks posed by a local Superfund site. The landfill, operated by Hercules since [...]

Byline: Batool Ghaith Dec. 29AMMAN According to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Jordan, the Water Innovations Technology (WIT) project has saved around 23 million cubic metres (mcm) [...]

Byline: Andrew Dowd Nov. 19EAU CLAIRE Chippewa Valley Regional Airport intends to sample groundwater and soil on its property early next year as part of an investigation into PFAS chemical [...]