A 1.3-gallon bottle of water sells for 25 rand ($1.30), an expensive exercise for most people in a country where over 32% of the population is unemployed. "We are really struggling," Moloi said.

There was no other alternative. A 1.3-gallon bottle of water sells for $1.30, an expensive exercise for most people in a country where over 32% of the population is unemployed.

It’s no surprise that water is in short supply in the desert nation of Iran, but its capital, Tehran, is facing a crisis. The ...

Jabari Omari, a Jackson city employee, talks with a resident while helping hand out cases of bottled water at a Mississippi Rapid Response Coalition distribution site on August 31, 2022 in Jackson ...

“It’s a health crisis, an economic crisis, and a humanitarian emergency all in one.” An Afghan boy fills his potable water tanker from a pump on the outskirts of Kabul on April 27, 2025.

The Biden administration on Tuesday released a highly anticipated analysis of the Colorado River crisis that paints a dire picture of what that river system’s collapse would portend for the West ...

Climate change is certainly partly to blame for the water crisis. But poor water management, economic strife, supply-chain crises and global inflation combine to make a bad situation worse.

The API failed to deliver the resource. The water crisis in Caney could lead to an official state of emergency declaration for the small southeastern Kansas town, its city administrator confirmed.

Regarding the Sept. 1 front-page article “Water crisis in Miss. exposes another climate vulnerability”: The federal government cannot wait for catastrophic failures before making the ...