The World Bank has urged governments in the Middle East and North Africa to speed up improvements to water resources.

It's essential to all life, and numerous research papers are published about it every year. Yet there are still secrets to reveal about water, that seemingly simple compound we know as H2O.

A computer visualization tool developed by Arizona State University researchers can simulate the effects environmental and policy factors have on the future of water availability in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The program, called WaterSim, will be demonstrated on Feb. 17 by ASU geography professor Patricia Gober at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco.

Avulsion-the abandonment of a river channel for a new course-influences the long-term distribution of water and sediment on many flood plains, deltas, and alluvial fans but more field data are needed to test avulsion concepts and models.

There may be tiny bubbles in the wine, but not at the interface between water and a waxy coating on glass, a new study shows.

The Atlantic Ocean doesn't receive the mother lode of fixed nitrogen, the building block of life, after all. Instead, comparing fathom for fathom, the Pacific and Indian oceans experience twice the amount of nitrogen fixing as the Atlantic, say researchers in the Jan. 11 issue of Nature.

Berkeley Scientists Find New Way to Trap and Hold Intermediate Compounds in Water

It was a red-and-whitewash on the final day of competition as Singapore dominated the racing at Doha Sailing Club, taking their total sailing medal tally to 10. In time honoured fashion they celebrated by throwing their coaches, and each other, into the water after racing.

The decomposition of plant, animal and microbial material in soil and water produces a variety of complex organic molecules, collectively called natural organic matter. These compounds play many important roles in the environment.

How do raindrops form? It's a simple question, but the answer is far from elementary. Tiny water droplets somehow merge to become full-sized raindrops, but the details remain a mystery.