Photo: Without pumping regulations, rural Arizona has become attractive both for foreign and U.S. farms to produce water-intensive crops, such…
Photo: The city of Tucson, Arizona, imports the majority of its water from the drought-stricken Colorado River, via the 336…
Image: Flora Weil for Noema Magazine When one country’s desert forms another’s rain, then one’s dream is another’s peril. In…
Photo: The belly feathers of the Namaqua Sandgrouse can absorb and retain water so efficiently that the male birds can…
About 71 percent of the Earth is covered by water, and most of that is ocean. Only 2.5 percent is…