WATER

An Atlanta homeowner, Blayne Beacham, opened up her monthly water bill only to discovered that it would cost her $9,224.40 for apparent water usage in her three-bedroom cottage.

Flash floods and mudslides in parts of China triggered by heavy rain have left 16 people dead and 8 million affected. Evacuation and relief operations are underway in affected areas where water levels in rivers and reservoirs crossed the danger level.

Popularly promoted remedies for jellyfish stings range from vinegar to meat tenderizer to urine. But less outlandish methods are more broadly effective, researchers found.

Imagine achieving that clean just-stepped-out-of-the shower feeling without ever setting foot in a bathtub or soaping up. That's exactly what one South African college student, Ludwick Marishane, achieved with his product invention called DryBath, a new way to take a bath sans water through a clear topical gel applied to the skin.

The 2010 Gulf Coast oil spill may prove to be a jobs booster for the region, if money paid in damages is spent to restore the Gulf's coast.

Thanks to a NASA-sponsored expedition to the Arctic Ocean in the summers of 2010 and 2011, scientists have found an area underneath sea ice, which is richer in microscopic marine plants, essential to all sea life, than any other ocean region on the Earth.

Kelvin Santos, 2, was declared dead at 7:40 p.m. on Friday and his body was handing over to the family in a plastic bag after he stopped breathing during treatment for pneumonia a hospital in Belem, Brazil on Friday. However, during his wake, for a brief moment, the boy woke up, asked for water and then proceeded to pass away again.

India's Dalits, also known as Untouchables, endure widespread discrimination and violence despite laws promoting equality.

The situation is so dire, Maliki declared, that states could conceivably go to war over the precious substance.

East Texas has been shaken this past week by two earthquakes, and the region's natural gas drilling could be what has triggered them.

Chinese water experts say that around 50 percent of the country's tap water may not meet national pollutant standards and that water quality in non-coastal cities remains seriously neglected.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is again under fire for a draft study released late last year that suggests natural gas drilling contaminated ground water.

The U.S. coast is being invaded by cannibal shrimp, according to by the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Mars is full of glass dunes that bode well for the existence of water and even microbial life on the red plant, according to a recent study.

Early land-creatures may have had a natural antacid that allowed them to stay out of water longer, according to a new study.

The EPA's final verdict is that private water sources in the town of Dimock, to the northeast of the state, do not show levels of contaminants that warrant further concern.

Researchers from the British Geological Survey (BGS) and University College-London have mapped out the groundwater aquifers resting under the African continent. They found huge reservoirs of water under the northern countries of the African continent.

Lydia Chako, 39, was half-naked when she tried to throw three month old baby boy into Florida's Clearwater Harbor. Chako claimed that her baby was covered in snakes and lizards.

When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced late last year that it was going to test water samples from dozens of homes in Dimock, Pa.., Craig and Julie Sautner thought they finally had their chance to be heard.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency came out with further evidence that hydraulic fracturing did not contaminate ground water in a small Pennsylvania town where some residents claim natural gas drilling contaminated their domestic wells.

The stricken luxury cruise ship Azamara Quest docked at a port in the Malaysian town of Sandakan on Borneo island Sunday after a fire left it stranded for 24 hours.