Water contamination

The Trump administration wants to rewrite the definition for what counts as protected ‘waters of the United States.' The rule has caused frustration among farmers, but environmental attorneys worry a change could lead to more pollution.

The oil spill is the biggest in the Keystone pipeline's history and it dumped a sludgy form of crude oil that poses special challenges for a cleanup.

Rural communities face compounding reasons they can’t improve their water infrastructure, including inflation and a lack of human resources.

While P-13 wells are technically considered water wells, they were originally drilled for oil and gas exploration.

For towns with only a few hundred residents, keeping tap water clean and safe can pose a crippling expense. The predicament is likely to become more common in western Kansas as farm chemicals seep into dwindling water supplies.

WICHITA, Kansas — About 150,000 people in Kansas get their drinking water from private wells. How clean, and safe, is that water? Short answer: It...

Officials say Amarillo will not be affected by recent reports of groundwater contamination linked to Cannon Air Force Base—despite the fact that the…

The Environmental Protection Agency this week released a report on the environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water.As The Rural Blog…

Oklahoma isn’t the only state where the controversial process known as “fracking” has resulted in fights between state and federal officials, and the oil…

A Texas teenager has developed an invention that could help fight water contamination. According to The Guardian, Perry Alagappan has developed a new…