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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleTwo 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....
View Article2 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...
View ArticleWhere 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,...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleGot 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...
View ArticleUsing 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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