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The Rundown Instead of new federal rules, the EPA will work within existing local and state programs to manage logging road runoff. The CDC is helping North Carolina health officials deal with a brain-eating amoeba at a whitewater park. The House passes a bill to protect salmon but fisheries experts question its effectiveness. The House […]
The Global Rundown Under-regulation and over-consumption has left Saudi Arabia wondering if it will still have any water left in two decades time. Benin is getting a water infrastructure funding boost from the West African Development Bank. Meanwhile, a drought in Brazil is lowering yields of two traditional crops. New evidence suggests California droughts are the result of wind more […]
The Global Rundown The agricultural sectors in both Canada and Namibia are suffering as a result of ongoing drought. Computers in California and genetically selected beans in Central America are being employed to improve water efficiency. Mexico City should soon be the recipient of numerous simple, but effective rainwater systems. Meanwhile, a Maine teenager is building biodegradable stream cleaning buoys in her parents’ basement. In Bangladesh, previously […]
The Rundown Congress has not given the executive branch authority to regulate fracking, a federal judge determines. Millions of trees died in the California drought. President Obama signs pipeline safety bill that has provisions directed at a Great Lakes oil pipeline. The president also threatens to veto a Zika bill because of clean water concerns. […]
The Global Rundown Utah’s Great Salt Lake is quickly disappearing, and irrigation in a select group of small Paraguayan farms is getting more efficient one drop at a time. New Jersey students are digitizing water records, while the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recording lead levels in children. Californians continue fighting Nestle over water pumping in the […]
Federal government should have more active role in preparing for natural disaster and cyberattack, report argues. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue Cutting beneath the lower Mississippi River, the New Madrid fault is a T-shaped geological hazard that is primed for a fierce tremor. A magnitude 7.7 earthquake where the fault crosses the Missouri-Tennessee border […]
The Global Rundown A survey of hundreds of hospitals in developing countries found that a third of them do not have reliable access to running water, putting medical care in jeopardy. Deliveries of water, food, and other aid to Syrian refugee camps are at risk after Jordan sealed its border this week. Erosion along the […]
Satellite data reveal the depths of the megacity’s thirst. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue Beijing, one of the world’s most water-scarce large cities, has long drawn on groundwater reserves to supply more than 20 million people. The unrelenting pressure for water, though, is causing the land to shift and sink and buckle, which puts […]
The Rundown Forecasts for Gulf of Mexico and Lake Erie are for normal dead zones and algae blooms, which is to say that the water pollution is still bad and not close to meeting targets. A Pennsylvania congressman calls for federal investigation of groundwater pollution while California representatives want answers about federal reservoir operations in […]
Funds distributed to the states do not match current state infrastructure needs. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue The distribution of federal funds to states for sewer, wastewater, and stormwater facilities reflects neither changes in state population over the last three decades nor the infrastructure needs for utilities to meet Clean Water Act goals, according […]
The Global Rundown Seasonal rains are advancing in India, beginning in the south. The annual summer dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico will be roughly the size of Connecticut. A geothermal plant in Iceland turned carbon dioxide into rock — but the process used a lot of water. Zambia is using solar-powered wells to […]
The Global Rundown Pneumonia-like disease spread by airborne water droplets is rising in the United States. Bottled water will soon overtake soft drinks. California regulators drop a record fine against a water district for illegal diversion. A monkey takes out Kenya’s power grid. Drought followed by rain led to record nitrate levels in streams in […]
