After Decades of Neglect, Bill Coming Due for Michigan’s Water Infrastructure

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Federal and state governments begin to reverse course on underinvestment to address water’s true cost.

HotSpots H2O: ‘We Have Nowhere Left To Go’: Durban’s Affordability Crisis Pushed Development into Flood Zones

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Homes in high-risk flood zones are the only affordable option for Durban’s poorest residents.

War in Ukraine, Drought Converge to Worsen Hunger Crises in Horn of Africa

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Record-high global food prices coincide with failed harvests

FRESH: Wisconsin Judge Strikes Down Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Cleanup Rule

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April 19, 2022 Fresh is a biweekly newsletter from Circle…

An Encroaching Desert Intensifies Nigeria’s Farmer-Herder Crisis

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How climate change and human activity are driving violence between farming and pastoralist communities.

Perspective | Water is the New Carbon

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Global water security is increasingly threatened. Accounting for water use and risk ought to have the same urgency with which we address carbon.

Inflation Weighs On U.S. Water Utilities

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Water leaders worry that rising prices -- for everything from lead pipe replacements to treatment plant repairs -- will cause a historic federal infrastructure investment to fall short of lofty expectations.