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The Rundown The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency agrees to reconsider a copper mine in an Alaska watershed that feeds one of the world’s most productive salmon habitats. U.S. spy chief warns of water security threats in annual report to Congress. The Air Force provides bottled water to homes in Washington state whose wells were contaminated […]
PFASs — used in clothing, carpets, cookware, and more — contaminate wells across the United States.
The Global Rundown Residents of Colombia’s Tolima region voted to ban mining, in part due to concerns over groundwater. In Malaysia, the government decided to extend a ban on bauxite mining to address water pollution. As a famine looms in Somalia and three other countries in Africa and the Middle East, water scarcity is a […]
The Global Rundown A sharp decline in freshwater supplies across North Africa and the Middle East requires a “massive response,” according to the director of the Food and Agriculture Organization. Infrastructure across the United States, including water systems, received a D+ grade in a new report card. A water tanker strike in Chennai, the capital […]
The Global Rundown Strong storms cut into California’s water deficit this month after years of drought, replenishing snowpack in the Sierra Nevada. Nearly 2,000 residents of Flint, Michigan filed a lawsuit against the federal government over the city’s lead-contaminated water crisis. The U.S. Congress moved to eliminate regulations enacted under the Obama administration, including one […]
In farm country, the cost of nitrate pollution often falls on towns. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue Pretty Prairie, home to 650 people on the southern Kansas plains, is a one-well town. And that well is giving the town fits. The 30-meter-deep (100-foot) borehole draws water from a slice of the Equus Beds aquifer […]
The Global Rundown The taps are back on in Malaysia after the government called off planned electric grid maintenance, which had cut water for residents in Kuala Lumpur and Selango. In the Louisiana town of St. Joseph, lead contamination in the city water prompted Gov. John Bel Edwards to declare a public health emergency. Meanwhile, […]
The Global Rundown Leachate from waste dumped outside of Senegal’s capital, Dakar, may be polluting the city’s groundwater. A late-season hurricane is expected to make landfall in Central America today, triggering floods and landslides. The expansion of an iron ore mine in Western Australia may cause groundwater levels to decline and affect streams in a […]
Voters choose measures on bottled water regulation, government spending, and more. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue Clinton v. Trump is the main draw for the November 8 election, but down the ballot voters in several states will be asked to approve or reject policies and spending measures that affect water supplies. California residents, for […]
Many questions before the program begins operating. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue Prompted by a 2015 state law, the State Water Resources Control Board has begun designing a program to provide state aid to individuals and families who need help paying their water bills. Due to the Legislature by February 1, 2018, California is […]
Escalating risks drive water quality and supply to top of public agenda. By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue FLINT, MI — Before Barack Obama spent Wednesday afternoon in this tormented post-industrial Michigan city, the last president that visited Flint was Gerald Ford. That was in 1974, just a few months after Richard Nixon resigned the […]
