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The Global Rundown Toxic algae blooms plague lakes and rivers across the United States. Despite the recent end of the rainy season, more than a million people in Kenya face drought. Several U.S. Great Lakes reach all-time high water levels for July. Monsoon rains in India revive soybean and peanut crops, but also cause deadly […]
The Global Rundown Countries across Europe impose water restrictions as another round of record-high temperatures hit the continent. The U.S. military forms a PFAS task force. East Africa wavers on the edge of famine after consecutive failed rainy seasons. Elevated lead levels are discovered in Parchment, Michigan. California Governor Gavin Newsom signs off on a […]
This week’s episode of Circle of Blue’s weekly podcast, What’s Up With Water, focuses on restoring water systems to Paradise, California.
The Global Rundown The first four weeks of monsoon rains in India are below-average, sparking fear of water shortages and crop failure. Michigan files a lawsuit in an attempt to shut down Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac. The number of people needing food assistance in drought-hit Kenya tops 2 million. Wildfires […]
The megacity in southern India, as it waits for the monsoon, is not the first to run short of water. It won’t be the last.
Somalia faces deepening drought. Villagers in Pakistan’s Thar Desert are being forced to abandon their homes and livelihoods as a fourth year of drought grips the region. Dangerous levels of antibiotics are inundating hundreds of rivers worldwide. Officials in Zacatecas, Mexico, offered to mediate a water-related dispute between a mining firm and villagers. Along several […]
This week’s edition takes a look at a resurgence of Hepatitis A in the United States.
The Global Rundown Three groups bid on a large desalination plant in Israel. A study finds 414 million pieces of plastic on the remote Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean. Western Australia declares two areas “water deficient” and prepares to truck in water supplies. Colorado snowpack is sufficient to pull the state out of […]
The Global Rundown Drought and failed crops force Australia to import wheat for the first time in 12 years. Industry lobbyists push back against the European Union’s clean water laws. Reconstruction in Mozambique in the wake of Cyclones Idai and Kenneth will require an estimated $3.2 billion in aid. China begins its first round of […]
The Global Rundown Australia’s meteorological department says there is less of a chance of an El Niño weather event this year due to cooling of the Pacific. Bosnia declares a state of emergency as floods sweep through parts of the country. Farmers in Zimbabwe turn to drip irrigation and vegetable crops as rain-dependent maize harvests […]
The Global Rundown The Red Cross warns that drought is affecting more than 10 million people in North Korea. As pollution chokes India’s rivers, the “cursed” Chambal river runs clean. Mismanaged plastic waste causes up to 1 million deaths in the developing world each year, according to a report. Coffee yield in Tanzania tumbles due […]
Your “need to know” news of the world’s water from Circle of Blue, with headlines and this week’s feature: U.S. Irrigation moves east.
