
How Hackers Tried to Add Dangerous Lye into a City’s Water Supply
A cybersecurity expert explains how safety systems stopped the attack

How Hackers Tried to Add Dangerous Lye into a City’s Water Supply
A cybersecurity expert explains how safety systems stopped the attack

Sunlight Powers Portable, Inexpensive Systems to Produce Drinking Water
A new generation of tech uses heat from the sun to provide clean, salt-free water


Forever Chemicals Are Widespread in U.S. Drinking Water
Experts hope that with the incoming Biden administration, the federal government will finally regulate a class of chemicals known as PFASs

Ancient Peruvian Farmers Harnessed El Niño Floodwaters
Structures diverted the weather pattern’s floods to new farmlands 2,000 years ago

Mountain Water Supply to Two Billion People Could Change
Data about Earth’s 78 most important mountaintops foretell changes in the amount and timing of snowmelt

To Boost Renewable Energy, Australia Looks to Water and Gravity
Pumped storage hydropower could store intermittent energy from wind and solar power to de-carbonize the nation’s electricity supply

Why Don’t We Get Our Drinking Water from the Ocean by Taking the Salt out of Seawater?
Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, distills an answer to the question