The Stream, January 26: The Shale Boom and the Economy

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The International Energy Agency will make shale gas recommendations…

The Stream, January 25: Milk, Arsenic and Mexico’s Water

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Arsenic Arsenic is tainting freshwater supplies in Mexico's…

The Stream, January 23: Chevron Appeals $18 Billion Amazon Pollution Fine

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Chevron has filed an appeal with Ecuador's Supreme Court to review…

The Stream, January 16: Asian Carp

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Lake Erie and some of its biggest tributary rivers have just…

The Stream, January 13: Water Pollution Looms In Lake Titicaca

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Growing urban populations, poor infrastructure and unenforced…

The Stream, January 2: Houston’s Leaky Pipes

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Houston's ailing pipeline system lost more than 18 billion gallons…

The Stream, December 22: Mercury Emissions Cuts Benefit Water

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Emissions The United States passed new rules to cut mercury…

The Stream, December 20: Water Rights Lawsuits

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New Mexico is suing the federal government over water allocations…
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James Workman: Poetry, Slammed — Dambusting Celebratory Removals

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The most dramatic freshwater news stories of 2011 literally broke wide open in the Pacific Northwest's hydropowered region, as two major Washington currents were unplugged in in order to replenish an endangered, iconic, transrational species of fish. In that same spirit of silent wonder, and agape, the following 318 words began to arrange and then unglue themselves to honor these inspired, extraordinary events.

The Stream, December 7: The Shale Gas Boom

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Global carbon emissions are likely to continue increasing at…

The Stream, December 5: Afghanistan-Pakistan Water Relations

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Afghanistan's plans to build 12 dams on the Kabul River, and…

The Stream, November 22: Future of the Salton Sea

California's Aral Sea? The vanishing Salton Sea figures large…