Despite perceptions that it's healthier, there is little difference between bottled water and tap water - apart from cost - selling to up to 1,000 times the price, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
The Water Quality Association launched an educational campaign encouraging Americans to raise their H20 IQ during National Drinking Water Week (May 6-12).
Citizens of Walkerton, Ontario, where E.coli bacteria killed seven and sickened thousands, would get at least $1,400 each under a tentative resolution to a class-action lawsuit.
Federal investment in California's aging water infrastructure is necessary to provide national economic and environmental benefits, as well as forestall a water shortage that could prove more damaging than the current energy crisis, according to some.
A bill requires Florida Department of Environmental Protection to adopt primary and secondary drinking water regulations for non-transient, non-community water systems and transient non-community water systems, and authorizes the department to make loans to nonprofit transient non-community water systems.
Geologists say that within 25 years, the growing population of 560,000 in El Paso, Texas, will have used up the Hueco Bolson aquifer that sits below much of west Texas and parts of New Mexico.