Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2022, California built an emergency drought barrier across the West False River near Oakley to protect against saltwater ...

The Delaware River Basin Commission directed emergency reservoir releases beginning in October 2024, dumping about 1.12 billion gallons of water by early November to push back a wall of salt creeping ...

Mississippi River facing Plaquemines Parish, whose residents have already had to use bottled water to avoid saltwater contamination. Just days after President Biden issued an order for emergency aid ...

New Orleans and other communities in Louisiana are preparing for salt water to invade their drinking water after an extended drought in the Midwest decreased the flow of fresh water to the Mississippi ...

Editor’s note: As of Oct. 12, The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says the saltwater wedge has regressed downriver by nearly six miles. Two communities, Gretna and Algiers, are no longer expected to ...

Heavy rainfall related to Hurricane Helene has helped slow the advance of salt water pushing up the Mississippi River and New Orleans area drinking water is still forecast to remain safe from the ...

Holly Michael receives funding from the US National Science Foundation, the US Geological Survey, and the US National Park Service. Seawater intrusion is the movement of saline water from the ocean or ...