Let’s dive into the phases of the water cycle. Evaporation: Occurs when a liquid turns into a gas. A puddle of water on the ground dries up through a process of evaporation.

Rawal Dam, constructed in 1960, has a total storage capacity of 1,752 acre-feet. It currently holds 1,737 acre-feet of water barely enough to meet the twin cities' needs for two months.

On its surface, floating solar appears to conserve water while generating carbon-free electricity. River managers are cautious, but some say the West can’t afford to wait.

March’s storms improved snowpack and runoff in the Northern Sierra, and the state increased allocations from the State Water Project to its many contract agencies (for much of SoCal, that means ...

“The major driver for Trabuco Canyon Water District is outdoor water use — we’re 88% single-family residential — and the first four months of 2025 have seen barely half of the ...

Your water use is way up, even though Southern California is dry Column: New goals may involve shorter showers, recycled water and more conservation.

Sydney Water is proposing to add purified recycled drinking water – effluent that has been highly treated back to drinking standard – to Sydney’s tap water supply.

Cities can adapt to water cycle "whiplash" – the rapid shifts between drought and floods – by focusing on green infrastructure, climate-resilient building designs, efficient water management, and ...

Hedestrand1, Rideal2 and Langmuir3 have shown that unimolecular films generally do not reduce evaporation from water surfaces into air to an appreciable extent, the reason being that the ...