Globally, non-point source pollution is an important source of water quality deterioration in rivers and lakes. A ditch-pond system, consisting of ditches and ponds, is considered to be similar to ...

"The plant must operate safely and cannot be allowed to threaten our drinking water." Engineers race to find solution as ...

Bacteria and parasites from human and pet waste can persist in soil and water for years, spreading to humans and wildlife alike. State, local and community non-point source pollution management ...

The Clean Water Act is one of America’s greatest environmental success stories. It has reined in industrial pollution and restored lakes, rivers, and streams from coast to coast. But 50 years after ...

The debate over coastal cattle and dairy ranching has revived as unsafe levels of fecal bacteria continue to contaminate waterways in the Point Reyes National Seashore. Park data from a year of ...

The Clean Water Act has reached its 50th anniversary. Still befuddling federal regulators is nonpoint-source pollution — a technocratic term describing pesticides, oil, fertilizers, toxins ...

Clean Water Act permits for sewage treatment plants, coal power plants, chemical facilities and other sources of water pollution expire every five years.

Nonprofit source pollution refers to pollutants that come from a variety of sources and not one point like stormwater runoff, nutrients, bacteria, sediment, oils or greases.

It’s a type of plan that environmentalists, scientists and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says can be a ...

The news that the clean-up won’t be done in ten years has some environmentalists concerned that the Turkey Point cooling canals — the source of the salt pollution — have outlived their ...

Philadelphia, Cincinnati and Sacramento are among big water systems that have indicated military bases as a likely source of water pollution.