A Virginia Tech study has found that the harmful algal blooms that devastated Smith Mountain Lake in 2023 are not a recurring concern at this time, but urged action to

WASHINGTON –Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 6893, the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Advancement for Training, Education, Restoration, and Science (WATERS) Act, which was introduced by Repre...

The Roanoke region and Southside the hardest hit by the ongoing drought, Gov. Abigail Spanberger says in visit to Smith Mountain Lake.

The tool shows how decisions in one basin can affect farms, factories, and communities across state lines, offering policymakers a data driven way to allocate water use more efficiently.

World Water Day celebrates water and inspires action to tackle the global water crisis. On World Water Day 2026, we will explore the critical relationship between water, women, and gender equality.

At Virginia Tech, researchers are using real-time sensors, machine learning, and global partnerships to give water managers 30-day forecasts that help safeguard drinking water and ecosystems.

The Broad Run Watershed Monitoring Program is a multi-year collaboration between Virginia Tech’s Occoquan Watershed Monitoring Laboratory and Loudoun Water. The goal of the project is to understand ho...

Developing shared cyberinfrastructure can enhance predictions of ecological change and enable improved decisionmaking for resource management and public well-being.

Marston explained the amount of water used by data centers, what they’re doing with it, and the reality of the national and local impacts. He also shared aspects localities might consider before welco...

A collapsed sewer line, about 8 miles from the White House, pumped 368 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of wastewater into the Potomac. Repairs could take longer than previously expected.

Landon Marston has created the first nationwide, publicly available database of U.S. water withdrawals, revealing who uses water, how much they take, and where and when it’s used.

A recent study found there is virtually nowhere in Virginia where you won’t find some traces of PFAS in the water, even in rural wells.

Jesse Gutierrez is working on collecting data from McDonald Hollow in Blacksburg, Va. building on the years worth of research in the area. Gutierrez, majoring in Water: Resources, Policy, and Manageme...

Approach doesn’t work on all PFAS compounds, but could help decontaminate thousands of sites worldwide

CommonWx is a weather and climate newsletter, and while this story does have ties to those fields of study, it’s more about how our earth is so intricately connected – and how little we know about tho...