Feb. 12—A pump station that's the workhorse of moving water uphill to mountainside homes in Waynesville is getting a $225,000 retrofit. The pump station is the first stop in a chain of six pumps that ...

Feb. 1—With every faucet we turn, shower we take, or toilet flushed, water miraculously appears from our pipes. But how it gets there is no small feat for water systems in the mountains. The ebb and ...

WEST GREENWICH – Ram Pond, visible through the trees just off the Coney Brook Loop Trail, is named for the ramming sound made by a mechanism that was used in the 1800s to pump water up a steep ...

Pumping water uphill can be “almost free” when you use photovoltaic panels and DC pumps. An upfront investment of several hundred dollars will enable you to pump water uphill for as long as the sun ...

Imagine you have a natural stream running through a low-lying area on your farm. It’s a great source of fresh water, only you really need it to irrigate some crops sitting at a higher elevation. The ...

Running only on fast-moving water, the pumps are cheap and easy to maintain, enabling farmers to grow fruit and vegetables GOJAL VALLEY, Pakistan, March 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Shovel in ...

To the editor: We press ahead like there is no tomorrow. Water is in short supply. People continue to move here and magnify the shortage. Why do we think of throwing away any of this precious resource ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Water has flowed from Northern California’s snow-capped peaks to the south’s parched cities ever since the California Aqueduct was built in the 1960s. Now, amid one of the worst ...

Turning more of the UK’s mountains into massive “water batteries” could substantially reduce the need for new nuclear power stations and save the country hundreds of millions of pounds, researchers ...

GOJAL VALLEY, Pakistan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Shovel in hand, Naila Shah regularly walks two miles from her home to a newly planted apple orchard, high in the mountains of Khyber village in ...