The Delaware River Basin Commission directed emergency reservoir releases beginning in October 2024, dumping about 1.12 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Communities along the freshwater Mississippi River are facing a growing threat from an intrusion of saltwater moving the wrong way ...

From The Gambia to the US, sea salt is increasingly seeping into the freshwaters people need for drinking and producing food.

NEW ORLEANS -- New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell has signed an emergency declaration over an intrusion of saltwater into the Mississippi River that officials say could impact the water supply in the ...

Concerns about salt contaminating Baton Rouge's underground drinking water supply has prompted regulators to order a sweeping — and some say difficult-to-accomplish — look at pumping and saltwater ...

BELLE CHASSE, La. — Saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico has reached some drinking water intakes in Plaquemines Parish. The same problem caused a monthslong emergency late last year, but this time around ...

TAKING A LIVE LOOK AT THE MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI AS A SALT WATER WEDGE IS NOW SLOWLY CREEPING UP THE RIVER. SO TO COMBAT THE IMPACTS HERE, THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS IS BUILDING AN UNDERWATER SEAL THERE ...

Communities along the freshwater Mississippi River are facing a growing threat from an intrusion of saltwater moving the wrong way up the river from the Gulf of Mexico. It has wreaked havoc on public ...