This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... a full-blown humanitarian crisis. People had no choice but to get their drinking water from toxic sources, and ...

In developing nations, however, the search for safe drinking water can be a daily crisis. Millions of people ... The United National General Assembly has recognized "the right to safe and clean ...

threaten to precipitate a full blown water crisis. While legislative efforts are underway to channel billions of dollars into fixing New Zealand’s water management issues, for Ngata, the ...

Two-year-old Annalea Garcia is bathed nightly by her mother, Crystal, in a bucket filled with water hauled from ... in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine.

In 2018, Cape Town’s ‘Day Zero’ became the focus for South Africa’s water crisis, but while its circumstances ... drought disasters with calls for national disaster status.

This story appears in the April 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a blistering day in the megalopolis that is southern California, Shivaji Deshmukh of the Orange County Water District ...

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. From India to Bolivia, it was always the women who knew exactly how much water their family needed. When photographer ...

But then the koala does something unusual: it climbs down the tree to drink water from a pool. Normally, koalas get nearly all their water from their food, and researchers have linked this new ...

our multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic waste crisis. Learn what you ... story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. If you licked one of ...