The complete online text of Running Water by A. E. W. Mason.

A. E. W. Mason was one of the best and most popular storytellers in the first half of the twentieth century. He was remembered by his contemporaries for his genial and companionable nature and his hearty laugh and also for his enthusiasm for travel and m...

Several times a day, Roger Thacker hauls 5-gallon buckets of water about 50 yards uphill to his mobile home so his family can bathe and do laundry.It's a grueling daily chore that keeps local families like Thacker's trapped in a 19th century time warp, years...

Nineteen people have contracted cholera in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, in the first outbreak of the often-deadly disease in the city in a year, Zimbabwe state radio reported Friday.The 19 are from the impoverished eastern townships of Mabvuku and Tafara, where residents have gone without...

When it comes to motivating people to wash their produce before eating it, visuals seem to help.Potatoes, for instance. No food safety argument is needed when dirt is that easy to see and feel. But how about tomatoes and apples, which arrive at the grocer...

An eight-day heat wave killed as many as 28 people in Southern California before the temperatures finally began to ebb, coroners in four counties said Wednesday.Temperatures have soared past 110 degrees in desert sections of the region, with nighttime temperatures easing only a few degrees....