Author: Water Science and Technology Board

In some coalbeds, naturally occurring water pressure holds methanethe main component of natural gasfixed to coal surfaces and within the coal. In a...

Produced waterwater from underground formations that is brought to the surface during oil and gas productionis the greatest volume byproduct associ...

The drylands region shared by the United States and Mexico currently faces multiple sustainability challenges at the intersection of the human and ...

Flooding is the natural hazard with the greatest economic and social impact in the United States, and these impacts are becoming more severe over t...

New York City's municipal water supply system provides about 1 billion gallons of drinking water a day to over 8.5 million people in New York City ...

Legionnaires' disease, a pneumonia caused by the Legionella bacterium, is the leading cause of reported waterborne disease outbreaks in the United ...

Solving problems related to use of water resources will be of paramount importance in coming decades as increasing pressure from growing population...

While the public is generally aware of the use of hydraulic fracturing for unconventional resource development onshore, it is less familiar with th...

During the 20th century, the city of Los Angeles diverted surface water flowing into Owens Lake for water supply, transforming the large, closed-ba...

New York City's water supply system is one of the oldest, largest, and most complex in the nation. It delivers more than 1.1 billion gallons of wat...

For nearly a century, scientific advances have fueled progress in U.S. agriculture to enable American producers to deliver safe and abundant food d...

The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is housed within the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and offers insurance policies that are ...

Floods take a heavy toll on society, costing lives, damaging buildings and property, disrupting livelihoods, and sometimes necessitating federal di...

Extensively modified over the last century and a half, California's San Francisco Bay Delta Estuary remains biologically diverse and functions as a...

The Florida Everglades is a large and diverse aquatic ecosystem that has been greatly altered over the past century by an extensive water control i...

Although the progress of environmental restoration projects in the Florida Everglades remains slow overall, there have been improvements in the pac...

Expanding water reusethe use of treated wastewater for beneficial purposes including irrigation, industrial uses, and drinking water augmentationco...

The human-mediated introduction of species to regions of the world they could never reach by natural means has had great impacts on the environment...

Historically, the flow of sediment in the Missouri River has been as important as the flow of water for a variety of river functions. The sediment ...

Across the United States, thousands of hazardous waste sites are contaminated with chemicals that prevent the underlying groundwater from meeting d...

The first two decades of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program have provided a successful and useful asses...

The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in southwest Washington State radically changed the physical and socio-economic landscapes of the region. The...