The U.N. World Water Development Report 2023 painted a stark picture of the huge gap that needs to be filled to meet U.N. goals to ensure all people have access to clean water and sanitation by 2030.

Red Flags Raised About Drinking Water for 1 Million People. Published Jul 02, 2024 at 11:09 AM EDT Updated Jul 02, 2024 at 2:32 PM EDT. By . Anna Skinner is a Newsweek senior reporter based in ...

Around 2 billion people around the world do not have access to clean and safe drinking water, and approximately 3.6 billion people – 46% of the world's population – lack adequate sanitation ...

Water toxicity can occur when someone drinks water faster than their body can process, which is about 1 liter per hour, Vortsman says. An excessive amount of water can cause “real damage” as ...

The “Dirty Water Rule,” as we at Puget Soundkeeper and others refer to it, would remove protections for at least 18% of streams and at least 51% of wetlands in the United States — that’s ...

The global number has fallen from 1.3 billion in 1990. But one billion people – 90 percent of them living in rural areas – “continue to defecate in gutters, behind bushes or in open water ...

One mid-level EPA regulator was skeptical of change actually occurring, telling the Times, "The same people who told us to ignore Safe Drinking Water Act violations are still running the divisions.