Maui Mayor Rejects Clean Water Act Settlement, Aims for Supreme Court Hearing
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Internal politics in Maui County muddle a closely watched groundwater case.
What’s Up With Water – October 21, 2019 – Venezuela’s Water System is Collapsing
Your "need to know" news of the world's water from Circle of Blue, with the week's important stories, and in this episode, a look at Venezuela’s collapsing water system.
HotSpots H2O: Hundreds of Thousands Still Without Water In Embattled Syria
More than 400,000 people in northern Syria are short of water amid a Turkish military offensive against Kurdish forces in the region.
HotSpots H2O: Egypt and Ethiopia Spar Over Nile River Dam in Latest Round of Talks
Negotiations over how to fill and operate a controversial dam in Ethiopia are once again deadlocked after a tense back-and-forth between two countries that hold conflicting visions of water use in the Nile River watershed.
HotSpots H2O: India’s Monsoon Season, Wettest in 25 Years, Comes to an End
Following a slow start, India was deluged this year with its heaviest monsoon rains in a quarter century.
116 Confirmed Cases in North Carolina’s Largest Recorded Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak
Outbreak investigation centers on a fairgrounds in North Carolina’s western foothills.
Tracking the Atlantic Ocean’s Inland Creep in Miami-Dade County
It’s a gentle intruder, moving stealthily underground, out of sight but not undetected. Salt water continues to move farther inland in Florida’s Miami-Dade County, albeit at a slower rate, according to new USGS mapping.
Speaking of Water – Bringing Collective Action to Local Solutions – With H&M’s Kim Hellström and Shariful Hoque
Kim Hellström and Shariful Hoque of H&M discuss collective actions in terms of a water agenda all over the supply chain.
Clean Water Act Showdown at Supreme Court Might Be Avoided. For Now.
A lawsuit with broad implications for the country’s waterways and pollution permitting system might be resolved out of court, avoiding, at least for now, a showdown in the nation’s highest court over the scope of the Clean Water Act.
Mark Fletcher and Mindy Lubber: Water Resilience and Supply Chains
Mark Fletcher, Global Water Leader at Arup, and Mindy Lubber, CEO and President at CERES, discuss water resilience, supply chains, and global solutions to local solutions.