Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many homes and hunting camps that sit alongside farm lands, are now flooded by backwaters that have been standing for several ...

That old bothersome catchphrase, “better late than never,” certainly applies to the Yazoo Backwater Pump Project in Mississippi’s southern Delta. It required 80-plus years of wrangling with agencies ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has given the final green light on the Yazoo Area Pumps project.“With the signing of today’s Record of Decision, we no longer have a proposal, we have an approved ...