As a record-breaking heatwave swept through parts of the U.S. this week, Americans increased their consumption of plain water, including tap and bottled varieties, to boost hydration and avoid ...

The fastest‑growing piece of America’s artificial intelligence infrastructure is colliding with one of its most finite local resources: water. As utilities, state regulators, and local governments ...

Rows of worshippers, some with their faces raised toward the sky, others with their heads bowed, prayed for rain at a mosque in Tehran earlier this month. Theirs is an increasingly desperate plea. The ...

Recent tests have detected toxic “forever chemicals” in public drinking water systems serving at least 151 million people, roughly half of all Americans who rely on these utilities to deliver clean ...

In 1945, Grand Rapids, Michigan, made history — as the first city in the world to add small amounts of fluoride to its public water supply. At the time, studies showed communities with higher levels ...

The H2O coming through New York City’s pipes is so clean, in fact, that NYC is one of the only major US cities that doesn’t use filtration. If you get your hydration right from the tap, you know it ...

A chance encounter with plastic waste on a tropical beach sparked a deep investigation into what those fragments mean for human health. The research reveals that bottled water isn’t as pure as it ...

Driven by the artificial intelligence frenzy, Microsoft is internally projecting that water use at its data centers will more than double by 2030 from 2020, including in places that face shortages.