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Severe Winter Floods In Ireland and the U.K. Could Become Commonplace
Flooding in the Somerset Levels region of southwestern England. Credit: Flickr user nicksarebi “There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to start people doing something.” Related Stories Why Canada...
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Turning Down the Widening Gyre of Plastic Micropollutants
Fishing for plastic microbeads in the Los Angeles River. Credit: 5 Gyres It’s one of the most memorable scenes in cinematic history. The aimless young hero of the 1967 film The Graduate, played by...
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A New Push for Greater State Protections on Florida’s Water
The Florida legislature next month will consider a bill to prevent contamination of the springs. Credit: Julie Fletcher/VISIT FLORIDA In Florida, the dividing line between land and water is often...
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How the California Drought Affects the Food on Your Plate
Credit: AP Photo/Jeff Chiu Despite some rain and snow in recent weeks, the drought in California is dragging on with no end in sight. And it is hitting the state’s vital agricultural sector in...
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App Inspires You to Beat the Neighbors on Water Use
Screengrab from MeterHero. A couple of years ago, McGee Young was a tenured professor in the political science department at Marquette University, teaching a class about water policy. Frankly, it was...
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Two Thirds of California’s Developed Land Is Under Extreme Stress
Folsom Lake, a reservoir outside of Sacramento. Credit: AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli The other day, a woman standing on a street corner in Berkeley, California, was hit by lightning. (She was,...
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To Deal With Drought, Texas Needs to Manage Growth
Credit: AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez The drought map for the state of Texas from April 8 of this year isn’t pretty. As of the end of March, 67 percent of the state — up from 46 percent four months ago —...
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Contaminated Water from West Virginia Finds New Home In Ohio
Freedom Industries, the site of the chemical spill that contaminated 300,000 West Virginians. Credit: AP Photo/Steve Helber Wonder where the water from that West Virginia chemical spill that...
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How High Will the Price of a Glass of Water in China Go?
Chinese residents collect fish from puddles in a dried-up lake in Beijing. (AP Photo/Chien-min Chung) Northern China, like the western part of the United States, has been grappling with an ongoing...
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These Women Will Walk Nearly 1,000 Miles for Clean Water
Ohio River Nibi Walk leader Sharon Day It was raining hard on April 28, but that didn’t stop Sharon Day and the two women walking with her on Route 7, along the Ohio River. On they walked, taking...
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Will Texans Swallow Toilet-to-Tap Water to Survive a Drought?
A “Pray for Rain” sign in Wichita Falls, Texas (Billy Hathorn) In Wichita Falls, Texas, they’ve already tried praying for rain. Local clergy and their congregants have gathered in a dry lake bed to...
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Maybe Marco Rubio Will Help Miami if His Backyard Gets Flooded
New studies indicate that part of the huge West Antarctic ice sheet is starting a slow collapse in an unstoppable way. (AP Photo/NASA) Sunny means cheerful. Sunny means good. Sunny means happy and...
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Feds to Pot Growers: Don’t Water Your Plants With Our H2O
(AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, file) There’s a disconnect between state and federal policy on marijuana, and the disparity has created a web of conflicting jurisdictions and priorities when it comes...
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New Website Maps a Growing Water Threat in the U.S.
The massive 2008 ash spill in Kingston, Tennessee (AP Photo/TVA, File) Every now and then, a disaster strikes and makes something that was previously invisible all too terribly visible. Such was the...
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Two Girls in India Would Be Alive Now if They’d Had a Bathroom
A protest against the gang rape of two teenage girls, in New Delhi, India (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, file) Homebuilders in the United States are counting on a clientele that is feeling prosperous....
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2 Supersmart Solutions to Our Biggest Water Problems
The Drinkable Book Drought, flood, toxins, disease: These are just some of the problems that come with water, the problems that people have been trying to manage since the earliest days of...
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Where the Thirstiest Cities in the World Go to Drink
A resident collects water from a tank in Balakong, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, earlier this year. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin) “It’s hard to know how to make water sustainable,” says Rob McDonald,...
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The 35 Cleanest Most Popular U.S. Beaches
The North Carolina beach in Cape Hatteras gets high marks for water quality. (AP Photo/Bob Jordan) If you live anywhere in the United States close to a major body of water, you probably look forward...
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Got Spare Water? You Can Make Millions in California
A Hollywood Freeway sign warns of severe drought. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File) “Water is set to become the most valuable resource on earth, even more precious than oil,” writes Ophélie Mortier, the...
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Using Water as a Weapon of War
Syrian rebels burned a statue on the grounds of the General Company of the Euphrates Dam in Al-Raqqa in 2013. Capturing the country’s largest dam gave them control over water and electricity supplies...
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