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India and Pakistan will rekindle the cooperative spirit of a nearly six-decade-old river-sharing treaty this week, when a delegation from Pakistan inspects two Indian hydropower projects along the Chenab River.
The Global Rundown Thousands more fish die in New South Wales, Australia. New Florida governor Ron DeSantis calls for the resignation of the state’s water policy managers. Indonesia’s Jenebarang River overflows, swamping homes and killing six people. Urban designers make Wuhan, China, into a “sponge city,” in a bid to boost flood resilience. Zimbabwe considers […]
The Global Rundown Newly-elected California governor Gavin Newsom names clean drinking water as a top priority. Michigan lawmakers reintroduce a bill to establish strict PFAS limits in state drinking water. Heat-stricken New South Wales, Australia, installs aerators in its waterways to minimize ongoing fish deaths. A new report warns that the water problems plaguing Detroit, […]
The Global Rundown Desalination plants are damaging to the environment, a UN-backed study finds. Officials estimate that up to one million fish have died along the banks of Australia’s Murray-Darling River in recent weeks, and more deaths are predicted. Another round of rain and snow batters Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon. Victims of last year’s […]
Weekly water news roundup for January 14, 2019.
The Global Rundown Texas begins 2019 with its highest water supply since 1993. U.S. President Donald Trump nominates Andrew Wheeler, the acting EPA head and a former coal lobbyist, to run the agency. China’s Three Gorges Corp moves away from domestic hydropower projects. The ongoing U.S. government shutdown will likely delay Hurricane Harvey recovery efforts, […]
Water will continue to be intertwined with social and political tension in 2019.
The Global Rundown The Southwest U.S. may be heading for a “mega-drought.” A new dam on the Mekong River may threaten the critically-endangered Irrawaddy dolphin. The United Nations appeals for $2.7 billion in aid to bring food, water, and medicine to refugees of South Sudan. Glacial melt depletes water supplies across the globe, a new […]
The Global Rundown The Trump administration proposes major rollbacks of the United States’ Clean Water Act. China attempts to cut pollution of the Bohai Sea. Snowpack in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains is above-average following recent storms. Officials attempt to understand a recent PFAS spike in the water supply of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Data shows that […]
Business leaders in some of the world’s most water-stressed countries say that water availability and pollution are the biggest risks to their operations.
