Much progress is possible. In fact, due to the dedicated efforts of governments and NGOs since the 1992 Earth Summit, safe drinking water has been made available to some 1.7 billion people around ...

Politicians appear to be doing little to grasp the bucking bull that is rising pollution by the horns and ringfence the funds ...

Destructive land use, mismanagement and climate change are fueling a water disaster set to wreak havoc on economies and lives, a new report warns ...

71% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water. But most of that’s salt water, icecaps and glaciers, and we can’t drink those. Only one percent is freshwater, and that’s what most land ...

The Earth's atmosphere contains 13 billion tonnes ... it is possible to extract drinking water to a standard set by the World Health Organization. In other words, clean water can be converted ...

A scientist who found the oldest water ever discovered on Earth decided the best course of action was, of course, to drink it ...

Human waste is being turned into drinkable water at a treatment plant in Washington state, with funding by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In our NewsHour Shares video of the day ...

Ludacris is on a quest to find the purest drinking water in the world. In August, the rapper-turned-actor hit headlines ... "I will not stop until I am the most hydrated mother**ker on Earth. It's not ...

The Earth may not have been born dry ... "It's fascinating to realise that when you drink a glass of water, most of those molecules were made more than 4.5 billion years ago in the cloud from ...