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Some residents can’t drink the water or eat the fish. Now they’re organizing. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue OSCODA, MI — Anthony Spaniola knew something was off with his town’s water. He read accounts in the Detroit Free Press and attended community meetings hosted by state health and environment agencies. Until last summer Spaniola […]
Do I trust my tap water? It turns out that the answer is very different for different groups of people.
The Gaza Strip may soon be unlivable, largely due to the territory’s devastated water supply.
The Global Rundown Water rationing in Brasília, Brazil, is expected to end by December. A recent report finds that over 800 million people must travel and queue for at least 30 minutes to access safe water. The American Chemical Society analyzes the impact of California’s wildfires on water supply. The number of water-saving “sponge cities” […]
The Global Rundown A UN report warns that water shortages could affect 5 billion people by 2050. The U.S. Supreme Court rules that residents of Flint, Michigan, can proceed with two class-actions lawsuits over lead contamination. Data shows that Lake Chad is shrinking at an increasingly fast rate. Vietnam grapples with water pollution and mismanagement. […]
The Global Rundown Thousands in Puerto Rico are still without electricity in the wake of Hurricane Maria, complicating water access. A U.S.-Saudi deal to build the world’s largest plastic plant in Texas raises concerns about water. Tropical Storm Tembin leaves Vietnam unharmed after battering the Philippines. A recent study explores how the world’s oceans buffer […]
A new era of severe environmental and economic disruption around the world upends freshwater supplies.
Legal barriers block water access for residents in ‘tangled title’ cases.
The Global Rundown The town of Sandbranch, Texas, which has been without running water for 30 years, struggles to maintain an adequate amount of bottled water donations. Near Lancashire, 70 people are rescued as heavy flooding inundates the United Kingdom. Researchers discover that outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases such as Zika and Chikungunya typically come three […]
The Rundown The GAO finds little activity in state nutrient trading markets and catalogues the military’s response to firefighting chemicals in drinking water. Security agencies warn energy and water utilities about a hacking campaign that began in May. Developers file a permit for a 2,000-megawatt pumped storage hydropower project in northern Arizona. The U.S. Geological […]
Study finds more frequent service cuts and dirtier water in trailer parks. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue Many of the more than one million Californians who live in mobile home parks drink water that is more polluted and more likely to be cut off than residents who get water from other municipal utilities, according […]
