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Fracking’s Potential Threat to Drinking Water
A barge on the Ohio River, one waterway where the Coast Guard may allow the shipment of fracking waste. Credit: Flickr user Mike As the fracking boom continues across the U.S., a new option for moving...
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We Only Notice When the Pipes Burst
Credit: Magnus D on Flickr Earlier this year, when the American Society of Civil Engineers released its quadrennial report card on the nation’s infrastructure, it gave a D to drinking water. The...
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MAP: The Stresses of Water Scarcity
What energy was to the 20th century — a pricy commodity, prime geopolitical factor and public preoccupation — water may well become for the 21st. If you take a look at the interactive map of global...
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The Promises and Pitfalls of Desalination
Credit: Flickr user Takver Water shortages and population growth around the world have led to an explosion in the practice of desalination, or removing the salt from ocean water or brackish...
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Why Adding Even a Small Amount of Coastal Wetlands to the Great Lakes Region...
Credit: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center The wetlands surrounding the Great Lakes are beginning to come back — a least, a little bit of them — and not because of benign neglect. They are coming back...
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Lax State Regulations Led to Contaminated Drinking Water for 300,000 West...
Workers closing the Freedom Industries tank farm on the Elk River. Credit: Foo Conner on Flickr If you’re not familiar with the way things work in West Virginia, you may have been surprised to learn...
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California Fish-Versus-Farmers Debate Rages In John Boehner’s Mind
The San Joaquin River in California. Credit: David Prasad on Flickr On January 17, California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency to help the state deal with a record-breaking three-year dry...
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Signs of a Less Dirty, Life-Sustaining Future for the Gowanus Canal
Credit: Flickr user gigi_nyc It’s among the most notoriously filthy urban waterways in the country, a repository for generations’ worth of toxic chemicals, coal tar and plain old human feces. New York...
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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.” Those were the words of...
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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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