South Carolina is taking steps to improve the safety of its regulated dams following the failure of more than 30 structures during October’s massive floods.
The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (OTA) is undertaking a six-project, $892-million program aimed at addressing congestion and access issues across metropolitan Tulsa and Oklahoma City.
It may seen ironic at first glance that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation are fasttracking a $900-million effort to address flood-risk and dam-safety issues at Folsom Dam, located near Sacramento, Calif., amid a headline-making, ongoing drought.
A new report card evaluating the overall health of the Mississippi River basin gives the watershed a D+ based on assessments in a number of areas ranging from flood control to ecosystem health.
After years of drought-generated water shortages, Israel now is in the enviable position of having a surplus of supply thanks to massive investment in desalination and wastewater reuse over the past decade.
South Carolina is gradually moving into recovery mode following widespread flooding from an early October storm that dumped as much as 26 inches of rain across the state's midland and coastal areas.
The sight of trucks bringing water up the mountain to the tiny village of Cloudcroft, N.M., has become familiar to its 900 or so local residents, many of whom are American Indians.
A new report provides recommendations for specific actions the water sector and local governments can take to reduce water pollution and address climate change through improving stormwater controls.
Dutch engineers have successfully placed a 50-meter-long, 20-m-wide tidal-power device into one of the openings of the North Sea-facing Eastern Scheld storm barrier.