Vol 3, Issue 17

On the fourth day of a criminal trial involving undrinkable water in two border communities, one of the two defendants pleaded guilty to all charges against him.

State environmental regulators should have done more to protect the safety of drinking water for two small border communities in Webb County, defense lawyers argued Thursday in the criminal trial for two former water treatment plant employees.

The blame game over who's responsible for the problems 8,000 border residents have with their drinking water is playing out in a Laredo court, as Webb County water treatment plant workers face charges of falsifying records to hide contamination from state regulators. 

In the time it has taken the state and federal governments to hold a Koch Industries affiliate responsible for a South Texas oil spill, 17 different quarterbacks started games for the Dallas Cowboys. 

In this week's Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights The Disaster Profiteers.

A new study says that septic tanks are not preventing fecal bacteria from contaminating rivers and lakes.

A study by Columbia University's Earth Institute, which measured the impact of global warming on California's drought, concludes that climate change increased its impact by as much as 25 percent.

Black plastic spheres known as shade balls are being deployed in four Los Angeles reservoirs as part of a $34 million project to protect the regional water supply from evaporation as well as contamination.

Using data from the Texas Water Development Board's reservoir status tracker, our auto-updating map visualizes the current state of Texas reservoirs.