Persistent drought could finally force resolution of the debate over how to account for evaporative losses in the West’s major waterway. Alongside farmers, ranchers and sprawling urban cities, Mother ...

While the Amazon River is world-renowned for its massive flow, a significant portion of its water evaporates before it can reach calm water reservoirs or the ocean. Anshul Yadav, a doctoral student in ...

Will seven Western states be able to rapidly craft a voluntary plan to keep the Colorado River afloat for decades to come? It’s increasingly unclear, as negotiations have foundered between two sides, ...

Much of the Colorado River’s water is diverted from reservoirs and transported in canals to the farmlands and cities of the desert Southwest. But some of the water also ends up going elsewhere — ...

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South Australian irrigators say the draft Murray-Darling Basin plan leaves them with another eight years of uncertainty about access to water, until the plan is finalised in 2019. It is unclear how ...

Scientists have identified two phases of the Messinian Salinity Crisis that transformed the Mediterranean into a massive salt basin 5 million years ago. Analysis of chlorine isotopes reveals drastic ...

One such example is Hexa-Cover, which is a floating plastic six-sided disc that is designed to align with other discs by wind or inertia, with the aim being to fully cover the surface of a water ...

It appears a management plan to fix Cobdogla's big stink is working, with residents reporting little odour coming from the south-east South Australian town's evaporation basin. The Department of Water ...