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The Global Rundown A new analysis by Yale and Columbia universities ranks the United States 24th in the world on environmental performance, with particularly low scores on water and waste management. South Africa extends a national drought-related state of disaster by a month. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) says it plans to hold a […]
The Global Rundown A new study finds that certain global hotspots are prone to swings between drought and torrential rain. Bulawayo, the second-largest city in Zimbabwe, cuts tap water to just one day per week as water shortages worsen. Heavy rain brings flooding to parts of Michigan. A dry winter and spring threaten wheat crops […]
Global efforts on the scale of those to curb the devastation of SARS-CoV-2 are few and far between. These months could provide a template for reducing future environmental damage.
Governments at all levels are beginning to review water access policies and inequalities that inhibit public and personal efforts to slow the spread of coronavirus.
The Rundown Outside advisers rebuke the EPA for a rule that is “inconsistent” with the Clean Water Act. Representatives introduce bills on regulating oil and gas water use on federally managed lands, a plumbing research laboratory, invasive aquatic species, Lake Ontario flooding, and a water technology research program. U.S. oil production grows 11 percent last […]
The Global Rundown As the coronavirus spreads across the U.S., activists urge Michigan officials to end water shutoffs in Detroit. Rising sea levels and changing weather patterns could engulf half of the world’s sandy beaches by 2100. A new analysis warns that flood-prone U.S. homes may be overvalued by up to $34 billion. The largest […]
The Global Rundown Minnesota officials estimate that PFAS cleanup in the state could cost up to $1.2 billion. The New Zealand army delivers water to rural communities in the country’s drought-stricken Northland region. Chicago, Illinois, looks to resume a household water conservation program that was halted due to lead contamination issues. Shipping in the St. […]
This is Eileen Wray-McCann for Circle of Blue. And this is What’s Up with Water, your “need-to-know news” of the world’s water, made possible by support from people like you. In Australia, parts of New South Wales and Queensland are seeing some of the heaviest rains in two years. The storms are a welcome sight […]
Staggering bushfires have raged across the Australian landscape, ravaging both life and livelihoods.
It takes water to grow crops, and an increasing portion of the US’s irrigation water is unsustainably mined from groundwater sources.
The Rundown At a Farm Bureau meeting, President Trump highlighted his administration’s rollback of Obama-era clean water rules and asked the Army Corp to withdraw a proposed rule governing water supplies in its reservoirs. Legislation introduced in Congress aims to ban mining near a Minnesota wilderness area, prioritize coastal carbon sequestration, guard individual water rights, […]
