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With clean-up efforts underway, relief workers in southern India concentrate on removing corpses and finding potable water. Emergency workers are also trying to get drinking water to tens of thousands of survivors. Health workers worry contaminated drinking water may result in more deaths then the 7,000 the tsunami caused. Laura Womak reports.

Lee County’s water woes were the topic of discussion at this month’s Chamber of Southwest Florida luncheon meeting. A summer of near record breaking…

Florida is the boating capital of the USA. With over one million registered vessels and over $6.4 Billion in boating sales, the waters are always packed during a holiday weekend.

Are you comfortable in swimwear? Happy to get wet at work? And mad about waterparks? Then this job is for you.

Michel Martin traveled to Fort Collins, Colo. to talk diverse panel of guests about drought, water rights and dealing with a future where water may be scarce.

Rainfall recorded so far this dry season is running about 50 percent below average throughout the 16county South Florida Water Management District. April…

High water this summer in the Florida Everglades could mean a massive die-off of white-tailed deer and other terrestrial species. Deer, along with smaller…

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to LeeAnne Walters, who recently won the Goldman Environmental Prize, about the current state of the water crisis in Flint, Mich.

Climate-driven flooding destroyed Tony Calhoun’s home in 2022. But as the water receded, his despair only grew. Now, his family hopes to bring attention to the mental health toll of extreme weather.

There is an exhibit on display now at the Barron Library in LaBelle called Water/Ways which explores the relationship between people and water. It explores the centrality of water in our lives including its effect on the environment and climate, its practical role in agriculture and economic planning, and its impact on culture and spirituality. We learn about it with Nicole Hellard, director of the Barron Library; and Dr. Brandon Jett, professor of history at Florida SouthWestern State College.