A Clearer Muddy Story: Fast-Flowing Water Can Form Deposits
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New findings suggest that fine clays may be deposited by relatively fast-flowing water.
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By The Dallas Morning News  Feb. 19--Way back when, you could drive through West Texas and see irrigation canals filled with water. Conservation wasn't in vogue in the '50s and '60s, so the runoff would just collect along the road.
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By Spencer Hunt, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Jun. 25--Bill Conklin has no trouble predicting Columbus' next drinking-water alert.   All that's needed, he said, is a lot of rain and fertilized farm fields.
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A provocative new study of photographs taken from orbit suggests that liquid water flowed on the surface of Mars as recently as several years ago, raising the possibility that the Red Planet could harbor an environment favorable to life.
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Supplying troops with potable water is a logistical nightmare in the parched Iraqi desert. But a new technology that creates water literally from air might solve the problem, and save billions of dollars in the process. By Audrey Hudson.
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U.S. scientists say they have made a discovery that could help public health officials know instantly when pollution moves into the coastal ocean.
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By Carrie J. Sidener, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.  Dec. 7--Trickles of water began to flow through aeration drums and into  settling basins at the Moneta Wastewater Treatment Plant on Wednesday.    It's the first test of the machines that will soon treat lake-area  sewage.
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By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 17--RALEIGH -- A high level of a naturally occurring element was found in a North Raleigh creek, which the city uses to flush wastewater from its water treatment plant.
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NASA&#39;s Mars rover, Opportunity, has discovered more evidence that water may have flowed over rocks on the Red Planet. Data sent back by Opportunity suggests an area known as the Meridiani Planum, was drenched
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By M.K. Guetersloh, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.  Feb. 10--BLOOMINGTON -- The city may be looking for short-term solutions that may increase Bloomington's water supply and improve its quality.
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Some are challenging earlier ideas about how water naturally flows because the streams studied then were not ânatural archetypesâ but rather the artifacts of 18th and 19th century dam-building and deforestation.
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A Mars-orbiting spacecraft has spotted a subterranean natural plumbing system that might have  ferried water beneath the surface of the red planet in the distant past.
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By Larry Parsons, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Dec. 18--It's not a good mix. Lots of dirt and gravel running off backcountry roads into streams where steelhead trout go to spawn.   All the sediment mucks up the gravel the fish need to make new steelhead.
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By Margie Wood, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  May 26--The recent storms that have passed through Pueblo have caused the water level -- and therefore the level of E. coli bacteria -- in local waterways to rise significantly, the City-County Health Department said Friday.
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By The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.  Jun. 1--Most Americans have never had to cope for long periods without access to running water. But for many of the residents of Blackmon Road, running water and adequate plumbing had been unattainable luxuries -- until last week.
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New images obtained by a sharp-eyed Martian satellite reveal that some Red Planet features once thought to have been carved by flowing water were in fact created by other processes.
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By The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Mar. 11--MORE PEOPLE are starting to take seriously the problems of water quality in the Arkansas River.   The Colorado Legislature recently passed a bill addressing water quality in cases where water is transferred from one use to another, and Gov.