"Parched" is an adjective that means extremely dry or very thirsty. It is used to describe land, weather, or a person who has ...

Michael Elizabeth Sakas is a reporter for Colorado Public Radio, and her beat is water. Sakas reports on the importance and the scarcity of water. Her new podcast Parched looks at the drought that has ...

More than 58% of the Northeast is in moderate drought or worse, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Drought has parched the Northeast U.S. for weeks, draining reservoirs, priming the landscape for ...

The Colorado River has more dams on it than any other river in the United States. They were built to harness water high in the mountains and across the arid desert so people could build cities, ...

The drought that has plagued the southwestern U.S. for more than 20 years is most obvious when you visit Lake Powell or Lake Mead. The Colorado River water that travels down there used to nearly ...

BUENOS AIRES, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Recent rains have brought badly needed relief to much of Argentina's parched agricultural land, the Buenos Aires Grains exchange said on Thursday, with coming rains ...