The saltwater wedge threatening New Orleans drinking water has been delayed by several weeks in its upstream trek on the Mississippi River thanks to better-than-forecast river flows last month ...

A saltwater wedge working its way up the Mississippi River is on track to contaminate New Orleans' drinking water in late October, which has federal, state and local officials scrambling to ...

It will stop the saltwater wedge, and that would make a natural stopping point for us,” said Steve Nelson, with the Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans. Orleans officials are making plans to ...

NEW ORLEANS — The new expected timetable for the saltwater wedge that had been making its way up the Mississippi River shows that it is now no longer anticipated to affect the drinking water in ...