The drought-stricken Mississippi River can no longer hold back the saltwater creeping upstream, contaminating drinking water.

Southeast Louisianans who primarily get their drinking water from the Mississippi River could be affected by intrusion from ...

which is working to slow a mass inflow of salt water creeping up the Mississippi River and threatening drinking water supplies in the southern part of the state. Biden’s emergency declaration will ...

A mass inflow of salt water from the Gulf of Mexico creeping up the drought-stricken Mississippi River is threatening ...

President Joe Biden on Wednesday declared a federal emergency for a saltwater intrusion in the Mississippi River, which is ...

Saltwater intrusion in southeast Louisiana is officially a federal emergency. Why it matters: President Biden signed a ...

President Joe Biden has declared that an emergency exists in Louisiana over the saltwater intrusion in the Mississippi River ...

President Biden approved a disaster declaration Wednesday in Louisiana in connection with saltwater intrusion into the ...

A low water level is seen where sills are being made in the Mississippi River to help limit salt water intrusion that is progressing upriver due to the unusually low water level in the river in ...

President Joe Biden approved an emergency declaration for Louisiana, the White House announced Wednesday, as the state ...

President Joe Biden has approved his Gov. John Bel Edwards' request for an emergency declaration in response to saltwater intrusion on the lower Mississippi River.