Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 22—A major change to a bill that would commercialize the treatment and reuse of saltwater resources seems to have swayed more ...

Aug. 5—Debate starts up again this week on a proposed water reuse rule the New Mexico Environment Department hopes will help address the state's water crisis. Environmental advocacy organizations and ...

Suffolk County now has a county executive who understands the need to have treated wastewater put back into the underground water table on which the people of Long Island depend on as their “sole ...

While treated wastewater in India is often discharged into water bodies or used for non-essential purposes such as irrigating public parks, its reuse for more critical applications remains relatively ...

Desalination is just one way of tackling the drought. Another technique to conserve water is quite simply to reuse it. David Sedlak is professor of civil and environmental engineering at the ...

Indoor toilets were once considered a health hazard. Electric lighting sparked fears of deadly fires. Air conditioning was dismissed as an unnatural threat to human health. It seems absurd now, but ...

In the arid Southwest, where water scarcity shapes every aspect of life, the idea of reusing produced water from oil and gas operations might seem like a promising solution. Advocates of reuse ...

As several water-related bills make their way through the legislative process, Texas water managers are bracing for another scorching summer, adding stress to the state's already strained water ...

The report provides an overview of the options and outlook for water reuse in the United States, discusses water treatment technologies and potential uses of reclaimed water, and presents a new ...