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A boil water advisory put in place Oct. 15 following a 16-inch water main break in the area of Legacy Gateway has been lifted.

Flooding exacerbated longstanding problems in a water-treatment plant in Jackson, Miss. The city of 150,000 had already been under a boil-water notice for a month.

The city of Fort Myers lifted a boil water advisory on Friday afternoon.

An update is expected this week in a legal dispute over Everglades restoration.

While the debate on fluoride has a focus on dental care, what about the other health issues regarding fluoridated water?

The drought in California has become so severe that cities are preparing to impose restrictions on water use in homes. In Northern California, the water level in Folsom Lake is so low that remnants of Gold Rush life, which have long been underwater, are now exposed and being collected.

Years of drought have drastically lowered the level of water in Lake Powell. That worries Western cities downstream that use the water, but it also presents an upside: Some of Glen Canyon's natural treasures were exposed for the first time in decades.

The Energy Bill passed by the House Thursday includes a controversial provision that would exempt an increasingly popular drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing from regulation under the Clean Drinking Water Act. Opponents of the exemption say the technique has been known to contaminate drinking water.

Broward County has found a new and environmentally friendly power source to fuel its waste-water treatment plant.WLRN.org

In 1985 the city of Thornton, Colo. bought up nearby farmland and water rights from its farms. Now, some of those farms are drying up.