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State Water Plans Are Coming Due
Reporter Brett Walton previews two plans — in Arkansas and Colorado — that will be unveiled this week, in addition to the Kansas plan that is due out next year
Meghalaya’s Coal Shutdown Order Tests Law and New Court’s Resolve
The big case has huge ramifications for India’s water, land, and economy. Photo © Keith Schneider / Circle of Blue The April shutdown order affected virtually every business in Meghalaya’s two big coalfields — the Jaintia Hills to the east, and the Garo Hills in the state’s southwestern region. In Jowai’s crowded market, merchants complained […]
Water Supply and New Development Path Are Priorities in U.S.-China Climate Agreement
Pact is fresh reckoning with Earth’s changed ecological and economic risks
U.S.-China Climate Deal Includes Provision on Water-Energy Research
A joint energy research program will be extended and expanded to include water.
Report: U.S. Water Systems, Deteriorated and Slow to Change, Need New Strategy – And Money
More of the same is not working in changed conditions of the 21st century.
Showing Off Circle of Blue Colleagues and Reporting in Traverse City
World-changing reporting fresh from northern Michigan. Photo © Keith Schneider / Circle of Blue Circle of Blue’s Choke Point: China project showed how China’s massive energy-consuming urban construction program, like this development in Xian, is producing an urgent a confrontation over water in the dry north, where much of China’s energy is produced. Click image […]
Matt Black’s California Drought Photographs Featured in New Yorker
Circle of Blue photographer documents Central Valley water shortage. Photo © Matt Black / Circle of Blue A man passes water vending machines in the small farmworker community of Stratford in California’s Central Valley. Click image to enlarge. Matt Black, the California photographer who documented the deepening drought in his home state earlier this year […]
World Water Week Offers Answers To Scarcity, Pollution, and Security
Stockholm hosts largest-ever international conference on global contest for water and energy. Photo © Keith Schneider / Circle of Blue The 24th annual World Water Week in Stockholm attracted 3,000 participants from 130 countries to discuss the ties between energy and water. Click image to enlarge. STOCKHOLM — Of all the world’s developed nations, none […]
Circle of Blue Live From Stockholm World Water Week
Three Choke Point sessions on the fierce competition between water, food and energy.
Circle of Blue Wins Society of Environmental Journalists Awards for Reporting and Photojournalism
Coverage of “the world’s quest for water” is timely, intimate, and dramatic.
Map: Not All Phosphorus Is the Same
A breakdown of the different types of phosphorous in Ohio’s Maumee and Sandusky rivers that have led to algal blooms in Lake Erie since the 1970s.
