In the coldest states, most homeowners know someone who has dealt with a burst pipe from freezing temperatures. Here's how ...

An agency that deprived a town of water for 42 straight days may also have deprived it of due process, the court held.

Millions of California water rights documents were only accessible in physical form in a vault. Now, they’re online for the first time ever. SACRAMENTO, California — California water regulators ...

March 15, 1960, was a raw, wintry day, but determined students from Claflin and S.C. State colleges, their number estimated to be a thousand strong, began marching from Claflin toward the Orangeburg ...

I support the Colorado River District’s attempts to purchase of the Shoshone Water Right from Xcel Energy. The $99 million price tag is to secure a large senior non-consumptive water right. This ...

Researchers calculated that the comet was shedding about 88 pounds (40 kilograms) of water per second, which is about the equivalent of a fire hose running at full blast, according to the statement ...

We had a portion of our lawn completely re-sodded Sept. 10. We have been watering it every morning for an hour. What should the process be for the next month or so to help it establish itself ...

The Milltown Dam’s removal in 2008 freed up a water right that could benefit a dwindling population of brown trout in the upper Clark Fork River. Low flows and warm stream temperatures in summer are ...

An irrigation canal delivers water in the Kittitas Reclamation District in Central Washington in better times. Even irrigators with senior water rights will be shut off in October. (Don ...

In a rare move, all surface water rights holders in the Yakima River Basin will see their water curtailed due to lack of available water. The Washington Department of Ecology is ordering a halt to ...