Water and a sheen of motor oil gurgle down a drain in a massive Fred Meyer parking lot on Aurora Avenue North in Shoreline, just north of Seattle. Traffic whooshes down the wet, seven-lane road ...

MOUND, Minn. — Stormwater drains are getting extra work this year, and with more rainfall in the forecast this week, it's put certain a problem front and center. So how can we reduce stormwater runoff ...

The Raccoon River weaves past downtown Des Moines. One of the primary drinking water sources for the region, the river has high nitrate levels that have led to water restrictions for some 600,000 ...

Algae blooms in bodies of water, like this duck week on a pond, can be caused by fertilizer runoff. Courtesy Johnson County Extension After conducting a soil test, home gardeners are often raring to ...

The federal Clean Water Act of 1972 was passed with the goal of making all U.S. waterways fishable and swimmable within a decade. But the latest water quality assessment by the Indiana Department of ...

Worsening local effects on health and recreation in states like Minnesota and Wisconsin are spurring action on problems that also cause the Gulf of Mexico’s chronic “dead zone.” ELBA, Minn. – Jeff ...

KUTV — When rain falls or snow melts, the water that doesn’t soak into the ground becomes stormwater runoff. This water travels over surfaces like streets, parking lots, and rooftops—collecting ...

It took nearly 18,000 photos to train an artificial intelligence algorithm to detect hazardous materials within construction runoff, but now the 17-year-old founders of Solvis have a computer vision ...