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GLOBAL DAILY WATER NEWS The Environment Agency in the United Kingdom is responding to less reports of water pollution during the Covid-19 pandemic. India announces a potential plan to build a dam on the Brahmaputra river just days after China releases plans to build a dam just upstream. Over half of waterways in Iowa remain […]
GLOBAL DAILY WATER NEWS An environmental coalition in the state of Georgia releases a new report on the state’s most polluted waterways. A recent economic analysis of a proposed dam in Australia found it could have a costly environmental impact. Governors in California and Oregon take control of four controversial dams on the Lower Klamath […]
YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN Water companies in England and Wales illegally discharged raw sewage close to 3,000 times last year with little punishment from government officials, a new report finds. Hurricane Zeta has left a town of less than 4,000 in Alabama without clean drinking water. Droughts like the barely averted “Day Zero” in Cape Town, […]
YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN The fourth typhoon to hit the Philippines this month wreaks havoc on provinces south of the capital but spares Manila. Australia’s government is hoping to spread wastewater Covid-19 testing throughout the country. One of the oldest water battles in the United States is nearing its end. Experts say the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance […]
YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN Almost half of the U.S. is experiencing unprecedented drought. Landslides and tsunamis are becoming more common as glacial ice continues to melt in the world’s coldest regions. The Japanese government is planning to start dumping over a million tons of radioactive waste into the ocean. New Jersey extends its utilities moratorium during […]
The Global Rundown Recent near disastrous hurricanes in Houston, Texas have brought back up a decades-old debate about building a storm surge barrier. Hurricane Beta is the third hurricane to hit the U.S. Gulf Coast in a month. A study in the Kansas River will help water-resource manages effectively respond to environmental disasters. Legislation to […]
Certain ways of drawing carbon out of the atmosphere to keep global temperatures in check come with substantial tradeoffs for water use, water quality, and food production, study finds.
Austin, El Paso, and San Antonio Prepared for Growth and Drought
The Global Rundown A new report from UNICEF examines water contaminated by leads pipes in the United States and the threat of lead in children’s blood globally. Oklahoma City is battered by rainfall. A report out of Australia delivers a scathing assessment on water markets. Flooding in India continues. Focus is put on the impact […]
The Global Rundown Water supply in parts of Delhi are being hit with massive amounts of ammonia. The water in over a thousand households in a Virginia city might be shut off. A new report finds that water stress could put companies around the world at financial risk. A study out of Texas predicts the […]
The Global Rundown Flooding continues along the Yangtze river in China. The federal government has reached a water rights agreement with local farmers in Kansas. The global migratory freshwater fish population is severely declining. Negotiations between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan continue over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. An indigenous tribe in Brazil takes a global […]
Listen to the July 20, 2020, episode of What’s up With Water.
