Peter Brewitt and Chelsea Colwyn discuss the legal and policy issues of non-jurisdictional dams
Food and Water
Ozone Treatment Could Open Up New Markets for Yellow Kiwi
The delicious and nutritious yellow kiwi could be more widely available following a study to improve storage techniques.
Sustainable Outcomes from Groundwater Governance
Researchers at the International Water Management Institute put forward a new conceptual thinking to achieve sustainable, socially acceptable, resilient, and equitable resource use.
How Can Zoning Limit Flood Damage?
How do we effectively evaluate and employ zoning and building codes in flood prone areas to minimize damage?
Confronting the Global Health Challenges of Climate Change
Protecting human health should be a priority in climate change mitigation efforts.
Flood Water and Society
In this opinion piece, researchers analyze a commonly deployed analytical tool used to think about water in the social sciences: the “hydrosocial cycle”.
Reviewing the Decision-Making Behavior of Irrigators
Irrigators’ decisions to follow best management practices or implement a policy change, to accept a technology, or even to exit farming, all affect society.
Algal Blooms in Streams, Lakes, and Coastal Waters
Agricultural, urban and industrial activities have dramatically increased aquatic nitrogen and phosphorus pollution (eutrophication), threatening water quality and biotic integrity from headwater streams to coastal areas world‐wide.
Protecting Groundwater Resources During Fracking
How can we better regulate unconventional oil and gas extraction to protect groundwater from contamination?
Water Quality Standards and Pesticides
How water quality standards for pesticides affect the classification of the chemical status of rivers.
Popular
-
Quantum entanglement visualized for the first time ever
-
Scientists take a closer look at rare particles called hypernuclei
-
An anti-inflammatory peptide may hold the key to low-back pain relief
-
Researchers take a glimpse at the structure of rare tetraquarks
-
Cutting out processed foods doesn’t automatically make a diet healthier
-
CERN scientists search for new physics in unusual energy patterns linked to hidden particles
-
String theory provides a new take on the expansion of the Universe
-
How the brain protects itself from the negative effects of CBD
-
Could a nuclear explosion set Earth’s atmosphere on fire?
-
Gliese 12 b: An exo-Venus with Earth-like temperatures