"Droughts are nothing new for the Western US. But lately, even some parts of the country surrounded by water have gotten a taste of droughts. Rebecca Williams reports as our population grows, some experts say we're going to have to learn to live with less water."

Two conservation groups filed a lawsuit challenging a National Fores logging project in Colorado that would impact the headwaters of the Rio Grande.

Drought is driving some people in the Navajo Nation to drink water that is contaminated with uranium and other contaminants.

A proposed dam on the Similkameen River close to the border between Washington and British Columbia raises thorny trans-border water issues.

"Federal officials must reconsider the irregular water releases from Glen Canyon Dam, which may harm the humpback chub, an endangered fish."

A power struggle has erupted over a North Carolina river.

Private well water should be tested yearly, two major scientific bodies say -- sometimes more often when kids are drinking it.

Wisconsin's landmark out-of-basin diversion of the Great Lakes is getting both praised and blasted by water watchers.

Canadian scientists are taking a closer look at dioxin-like contaminants in the Great Lakes called polychlorinated naphthalenes. They accumulate in fish and are toxic to humans.

"Oil dumping has led to a crackdown and devious tactics to try to evade it"

Some California farmers are depleting the groundwater beneath their land faster than nature can recharge it -- and climate change is likely to make things worse. While farmers resist regulating groundwater use, critics argue that not doing it "could prove catastrophic to the state’s real estate sector and its $36 billion agricultural economy."

The South Florida Water Management District approved Gov. Charlie Crist's deal to buy 73,000 acres of farmland from U.S. Sugar Corp. for $536 million to restore the Everglades.

President Obama issued an executive order empowering EPA to set a more demanding timetable for cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay and to penalize states that fail to meet it.

"Iowa is about to launch its biggest assault ever on river and lake pollution -- a $455 million campaign."

EPA may regulate runoff from the coal ash and sludge from air-pollution-control that power plants store in ponds and piles.