Small Wells and Water Treatment Systems

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Water treatment efforts on residential or private wells and small community-managed groundwater systems are typically focused on aesthetic issues such as taste or discoloration, or water quality contaminants such as arsenic. Water treatment...

Backed-up Pipes, Stinky Yards: Climate Change Is Wrecking Septic Tanks

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Lewis Lawrence likes to refer to the coastal middle peninsula of Virginia as suffering from a “soggy socks” problem. Flooding is so persistent that people often can’t walk around without getting their feet wet. Over two decades, Lawrence...

Why Pumping Groundwater Isn't a Long-term Solution to Drought

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Signs of drought proliferate across the American West. California is rationing water for farmers in the state’s Central Valley. Salmon are dying en masse in the Pacific Northwest as river temperatures climb. Lake Mead, on the border of Nevada...

Well Drillers Struggle to Keep up With Demand for Water

The stock ponds Kris Folland uses to water about 100 cattle on his Kittson County farm are shrinking to muddy puddles. "The ponds are basically all dry,” said Folland. “The other day I dug a 14-foot deep hole, cleaned one [pond] out, and there...

As Drought Grips American West, Irrigation Becomes Selling Point for Michigan

NOTTAWA, MI – In early July, a breeze slipped over a treeline of tall maples and stirred shoulder-high stalks of corn on Larry Walton’s 500-acre farm. It was an encouraging sound, like whispered words of stability, security, and profit. But how long...