MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City’s drought and water shortage is so bad that one of the capital’s rainwater catchment basins caught fire Tuesday, scorching 75 acres (30 hectares) of dried-up vegetation.

Life in the southwestern U.S. as we know it exists thanks to the water of the Colorado River, which flows for approximately 1,450 miles from the Rockies to the Gulf of California. The river gets its ...

Water catchment areas act as magnets and land reservoirs capturing and filtering rainwater that ultimately finds its way to our streams, rivers, dams and underground aquifers which store this water ...

Drainage basins are like the brakes on cars: people notice them only when they don’t work. And in southern New Jersey, some of these engineered holes in the ground are drawing complaints from ...

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