Water Sustainability Blog

With water conservation increasingly necessary, the striking difference between water use in affluent and lower-income areas is drawing attention.

Potable water reuse has arrived, but favorable public attitudes are lagging. One UC Riverside researcher decided to take public taste into account.

The people of Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, not only face rising sea levels, but depletion of groundwater is speeding rapid subsidence of the land.

With memories of the Millennium Drought still fresh, Australian cities have been embracing indirect potable reuse of wastewater to augment supplies.

Drought, pollution, and overpopulation add to the chance that taps will one day run dry International attention has focused on Cape Town South Africa's water crisis with the approach of "Day Zero," when the taps of a modern city may for the first time run dry....

From water reuse to desalination, reverse osmosis plays a key role in supplying fresh water where it's needed Consumers may already know reverse osmosis (RO) from popular under-sink home water treatment systems, but RO is used in many applications and at many scales....

Allowing stormwater to recharge groundwater may help solve urban water problems The Indonesian capital of Jakarta is a dramatic example of some increasingly common water problems because it faces a triple threat: The sea level is rising from climate change. The city...

Explosive growth in New Zealand's dairy industry has contributed to the problem New Zealand has cultivated an image as a country of pristine lakes, rivers, and fjords, but the image has suffered in recent years as the country's dairy industry has experienced explosive...

Endangered salamander provided unlikely impetus for conservation efforts Forty years ago, the citizens of San Antonio, Texas, used an average of 200 gallons of water per day per person, far over the national average. This drew the ire of surrounding cities due to the...