Lake Zurich village officials approved new measures last week for a $154 million project that will transition the town’s water source to Lake Michigan, but it comes at a price for its residents. The project will be the most expensive infrastructure project in the village’s history. Lake Zurich currently gets its water from deep underground […]
The national science foundation awarded up to $160 million over 10 years to Chicago's water resource non-profit, Current, and founding Great Lakes ReNEW, a regional collaboration to tackle major environmental issues.
Most lakes are setting new records for the earliest ice-out as the wimpy winter wanes.
Extreme climatic events such as droughts, heat waves, and cold spells not only modify hydro-meteorological conditions but also alter the underlying characteristics (e.g., wildfires due to droughts changing the vegetation cover). Intense human activities, such as river channel modifications, afforestation, deforestation, industrialization, and urbanization, further amplify the variability of watershed system components.
For years, lakes helped give the city steady water supply. But lopsided growth pushed out traditional users and left lakes shrunken and polluted.
TULELAKE, Cal.- The Tulelake Irrigation District turned on Pumping Plant D on March 25th, sending water from the Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge through the Tule Lake Tunnel to the Lower Klamath NWR for the first time in four years. According to the Klamath Water Users Association (KWUA), Pumping Plant D operated continuously for close […]
The Minnesota Department of Corrections has penalized a county jail for depriving an inmate of food and water for more than two days as punishment after he smeared feces in his cell and refused to clean it up. The department ordered the Otter Tail County Jail in Fergus Falls to transfer all current inmates to new facilities by the close of business Thursday. The jail will be allowed to keep new inmates no more than 72 hours, excluding holidays and weekends, until the state agency approves....
Czech nuclear power operator ČEZ and municipal heating company Teplárny Brno have signed agreements relating to a 42-kilometre pipeline from the Dukovany nuclear power plant that aims to benefit 250,000 people in the city of Brno.
Micah Eveland grew into the family business — Scamp Trailers — and helped it thrive.
Tulare Lake was resurrected to more than 100,000 acres, bringing fear and wonder. I went to see it – and couldn’t find it‘Stay out of the water’: what lurks below California’s zombie lake?For a time last year, it was difficult to drive through a large swath of central California without running into the new shoreline of a long dormant lake.Resurrected for the first time in decades by an epic deluge of winter rain and snow, by spring the lake covered more than 100,000 acres, stretching over...
SALT LAKE CITY – While the recently-concluded general session of the Utah Legislature debated the state’s future water needs, the Colorado River Authority of Utah has joined other upper Colorado River Basin states in advancing an immediate plan to operate Lakes Powell and Mead starting in 2026. “Water is the lifeline of Utah’s economy, agriculture […]
In second of two leaks this month, Hormel reported 50 gallons of concentrated swine blood and 20,000 gallons of diluted materials had mixed with storm water and was heading toward the Cedar River