"Water Wars" loom? But none in past 4,500 years
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With a steady stream of bleak   predictions that "water wars" will be fought over dwindling   supplies in the 21st century, battles between two Sumerian   city-states 4,500 years ago seem to set a worrying precedent.
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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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Blog: No need to reset your watch yet--but redistribution of ocean mass could make days a fraction of a second shorter in the next 200 years.
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By MARK A. GONZALEZ  Day after day, the heavens have delivered what the heavens had denied us for several years - rain, rain and more rain. I've seen water in places where I haven't seen water since the summer of 2001, and before that the summer of 1993.
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MODERN human beings may have wiped out two species of our closest relatives 25,000 years ago, possibly deliberately. The new research, by scientists at the University of Utah, raises the possibility that we
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The consequences of climate change may be major when looked at over long stretches of time. But can a disaster that needs thousands of years to unfurl illicit a fast-motion response?
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By Tom Henry, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Dec. 17--THE GREAT LAKES WATER WARS. By Peter Annin. Island Press. 304 pages.
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BOSTON -- Recent history suggests that ancient history may be, well, a thing of the past. The Boston Red Sox, winless in the World Series since 1918 and just a week ago three outs from elimination this 2004
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Drought, pollution, mismanagement and politics have made water a precious commodity in much of the world.
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A drink of milk was off the menu for Europeans until only a few thousand years ago, say researchers from London.
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A fabled fossil goes on view for the first time in decades  -  and ignites a controversy
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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 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 ALICIA CHANG   Associated Press writer  LOS ANGELES  -- For decades, scientists have scoured Mars in search of water, a basic ingredient for primitive life.   But the best clues were always tied to the ancient past when the Red Planet was warmer and wetter.
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JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming -- There is mounting evidence of the role of water  in Mars' evolution. That fact appears to have been favorable to the  development of life -- and the leftover calling card of past biology may be  preserved in that world's geologic record.
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By Brahma Chellaney  The sharpening Asian competition over energy resources   has obscured another danger: Water shortages in much of Asia are becoming a threat to rapid economic modernization.
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Pictures of Martian gullies taken years apart suggest that liquid water still flows on the planetÂs surface.