University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute researchers have discovered strontium in the drinking water of people living in Brown and Outagamie counties near Green Bay, Wis.

WRI-funded researchers try to chart the levels of toxic Chromium-6 in Wisconsin water, and detail the factors that lead to its formation.

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville will analyze ring-width patterns within cores taken from old oak trees found in southwestern Wisconsin’s Driftless Region. The effort is for a two-year study funded by the University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute into signs of long-term variability in rainfall and climate conditions.

The University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute has announced funding of $55,400 for two projects over the next two years. Both involve strengthening the abilities of community planners to respond to climate change by providing them with new tools and information.

Researchers have found that “new” mercury added to a lake during a study got assimilated into the food chain faster than “old” mercury that already existed in the environment.

September 17, 2012 By Aaron R. Conklin Stroll through any standard-issue suburban subdivision and you’ll likely key in on the familiar hallmarks: large homes with large driveways, ...

WRI researcher Craig Benson studies the effectiveness of cover and barrier systems. "Nature is the big equalizer."

University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School Dean Martin Cadwallader named Jim Hurley to be the next director of the Water Resources Institute. He assumes the position on May 1.

WRI researcher Zhaohui “George” Li, professor and chair of the Geosciences Department at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, has been able to characterize the ways in which antibiotics are absorbed into the two most common types of clay minerals in Wisconsin soil, where they begin to interact with—and possibly mutate—soil microbes.