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2021 Election Preview: The Expensive Battle in Maine over Hydropower Imports
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The second-most expensive campaign in Maine history is a debate over energy infrastructure.
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2021 Election Preview: Two Cities, Facing Floods and Aridity, Eye Big Public Works
Boise and Virginia Beach ask voters to approve infrastructure plans that exceed a half-billion dollars.
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2021 Election Preview: New York Considers Right to Clean Water
Voters will decide on a constitutional amendment for environmental rights.
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HotSpots H2O: Flooding Is Latest Strain on South Sudan
Torrential rainfall is battering one of the world’s poorest countries, laying bare its weak infrastructure.
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HotSpots H2O: As Famine Looms in East Africa, Humanitarian Groups Call for Urgent Action
Drought has left millions in the region facing food insecurity—and conditions are expected to get worse.
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Water Groups Lauded a Side Agreement at the Paris Climate Conference. Then It Languished.
The fate of the Paris Pact reveals the difficulties in incorporating water into global climate agreements.
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HotSpots H2O: Years-Long Drought Pushes Brazil to the Brink
The country’s worst drought in nearly a century is choking commerce, threatening ecosystems, and diminishing hydroelectric power generation.
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As Drought Grips American West, Irrigation Becomes Selling Point for Michigan
Michigan farmers irrigate with 187 billion gallons of groundwater a year. Is the state prepared for more?
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