Raging Water War Impacts Midlands: The More Our Neighbors to the North Use, the More Pollution and Environmental Woes S.C.
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By Joey Holleman, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Jun. 24--The Wateree River churns to life just below the Cedar Creek dam, when the Catawba River merges with Big Wateree Creek.
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By Barbara Carmen, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Feb. 14--The leaky water system at a South Side steel plant, cited by the state for polluting air and water, is so archaic that it still uses hollowed logs as pipes.
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By Mike TaugherSTAFF  An environmental crisis could disrupt water supplies throughout California for the first time since the early 1990s, threatening to end the long cease-fire in the state's water wars.
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By Herald-Times, Bloomington, Ind.  Sep. 7--City officials said Wednesday that residents might notice their  water has taken on a yellow or brown hue.
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By Wade Rawlins, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 13--The cost of buying land to create parks, protect drinking water and preserve open space has increased nearly 300 percent in 10 years, say groups seeking additional state spending on land and water conservation.
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By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jan. 31--The breakdown of a pump and an alarm system sent sewage into a Lake Wylie tributary, contaminating a cove near a residential area in southwestern Mecklenburg County.
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By Andy Mead, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Jun. 3--The path that brings Kentucky American before the state Public Service Commission to argue for a new treatment plant has nearly as many twists and turns as the Kentucky River itself.
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By Associated Press  LEHI -- An official is calling it a "water war." Two Utah County communities are claiming their supplies will be diminished if the state allows new wells to be drilled by Salt Lake County-based water agencies.
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By Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop  For many decades, going back tolong before its independence from Malaysia in 1965, Singapore has depended on its northern neighbor for fresh water supplies piped in to supplement the modest resources of its island catchment area.
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TORONTO (CP) - A new report says the health of the Great Lakes is mixed, and while the ecosystem is improving in some ways, there are many areas of troubling concern.  The report by Environment Canada and the U.S.
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A new research center at the University of New Hampshire hopes to help reduce a huge threat to water quality nationwide: stormwater carrying pollutants into streams, wetlands and coastal harbors.
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By MEG KINNARD  COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina's attorney general asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to stop North Carolina from draining millions of gallons from a river that provides drinking water and electricity to both states.
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By Mary Landers, Savannah Morning News, Ga.  Sep. 18--When the neighbors of a proposed sewage treatment plant for Port  Wentworth got wind of its location, they got concerned.
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Almost five years after a cyanide spill from a gold mine in northern Romania travelled down the Tisza river in Hungary, leaving a trail of ecological destruction in its wake, local communities in the region ...
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By Katy Stech, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.  Feb. 4--The homeland security spotlight has shifted to the nation's  15,000 chemical manufacturing plants, including the dozen or so in the  Charleston region.
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By Monica Chen, The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.  Sep. 17--Local officials and hundreds of concerned residents are gearing up for a fight Tuesday in Charlotte at the last meeting on a proposal that could remove up to 36 million gallons a day from the Catawba River.
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Lake levels reached record lows last year, and the region worries that fast-growing states and communities will try to grab its water.