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The Global Rundown Negotiators reached a climate deal in Lima, requiring all countries to create plans to reduce their emissions. Meanwhile, major droughts continued to plague California and Sao Paulo, and China documented its shrinking glaciers. Morocco received more money for water infrastructure projects, while Australia cut funding for infrastructure in the Murray-Darling Basin. Access […]
The Global Rundown The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is urging the world to take action now. Climate change is being linked to floods and water scarcity in Pakistan, sinking cities in Southeast Asia, and pushing back progress on waterborne diseases in China. A lack of clean water and sanitation is threatening babies in Tanzania, […]
Science North America, South America A new report from Environment America details successes of the Clean Water Act passed in the United States 42 years ago. 15 rivers, lakes and bays are highlighted. Notably, the Cuyahoga River, which once was so polluted that it actually caught fire, now supports a healthy fishery. Researchers from Chile […]
Water Supply Residents of Sao Paulo will likely be facing daily water shutoffs due to a drought that has drawn down water levels in its main drinking water reservoir to just 5 percent of capacity, Bloomberg News reported. The city’s water utility has so far resisted shutoffs, but Brazil’s national regulators say it will not […]
Steeled by past drought, governor is reshaping how largest U.S. state uses and distributes water.
New rules seek sustainable use, but the details will be written later by local agencies.
Coverage of “the world’s quest for water” is timely, intimate, and dramatic.
A clutch of new data tools from Circle of Blue puts California’s water crisis into context. Map © Jordan B. Bates and Aubrey Ann Parker / Circle of Blue Infographic: California’s water withdrawals from 1985 to 2005, as well as information on population demographics and arsenic contamination in the Central Valley. Click image to enlarge. […]
A clutch of new data tools from Circle of Blue puts California’s water crisis into context. Map © Jordan B. Bates and Aubrey Ann Parker / Circle of Blue Infographic: California’s water withdrawals from 1985 to 2005, as well as information on population demographics and arsenic contamination in the Central Valley. Click image to enlarge. […]
The most populous state in the United States enters the summer of 2014 in the throes of a ruinous drought.
