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The Global Rundown Two international financial institutions withdrew their support of Honduras’ Agua Zarca dam after two activists who had opposed the dam were murdered. Droughts and record high temperatures have placed 36 million people in Africa at risk of hunger. Venezuela plans to extend the Easter holiday to reduce electricity demand amid drought-linked shortages. […]
The Rundown A California irrigation district is fined by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Central Asian countries are concerned about water supply but doing little about it. Nitrogen is decreasing in Long Island Sound, while chloride from road salts is rising. A solar power project in Nevada will lease water from an Indian tribe. A […]
The Global Rundown A growing population could create significant water shortages in London by 2040. Development in Kolkata threatens the wetlands that provide the city with food, flood protection, and wastewater cleaning services. Saltwater intrusion and poor access to clean water are inhibiting women’s rights in Bangladesh. Millions of people in the United States could […]
The Global Rundown Protesters briefly took control of a major water canal supplying New Delhi over the weekend before India’s army recaptured it. Meanwhile, drought-hit farmers in rural India are asking the government to support a jobs program that provides work on public projects. A strong tropical cyclone damaged water supplies and crops in Fiji, […]
The Rundown President Obama makes his budget pitch. California senator introduces (another) drought bill. The White House defers to Congress for Flint funding but does look to expand Medicaid for affected families. Spy agency chiefs testify about national security risks. Texas representatives try to exempt a proposed reservoir from Clean Water Act permitting. The research […]
The Global Rundown Globally, more people than previously thought experience severe water scarcity for at least part of the year, a new study found. To fight water shortages in Yemen, communities are experimenting with fog harvesting, and a major city in India’s Punjab state is waiting for government approval to improve drinking water quality. The […]
Climate risk and energy development, groundwater and conflict — the political awareness of water grew in 2015. Photo © J. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue California’s continuing drought emergency was one of the big water stories of 2015. Click image to enlarge. By Peter Gleick Pacific Institute Brett Walton Circle of Blue Water was […]
The Global Rundown Brazil may charge executives at a mining company for homicide over a tailings dam failure that killed 17 people. Radioactive water seeped into groundwater at a New York nuclear plant, though officials say it is contained. Egypt needs billions of dollars to finance water treatment plants, two major U.S. science agencies are […]
The Global Rundown The Mosul Dam, Iraq’s largest dam, could collapse and cause a catastrophic flood, a top U.S. general said. Employees of an aluminum oxide plant on trial for a 2010 flood of toxic sludge in Hungary were acquitted, and Michigan extended a state of emergency for the city of Flint over contaminated drinking […]
The Global Rundown Coal mines in Australia are high risk for investors due to their dependence on export markets and their exposure to environmental risks, a new study found. The majority of India’s urban sewage is never treated, and air pollution in South Asia may be changing monsoon rainfall. The El Nino weather pattern is […]
The Rundown A change in leadership at EPA Region 5. Obama talks with Flint mayor and directs federal money for water infrastructure improvements. EPA begins internal investigation over Flint response. 2015 was the hottest year on record. Communities get $US 1 billion for climate resiliency. Great Lakes has no surplus water, report says. Republicans call […]
The Global Rundown Water crises pose the biggest long-term risk to global society, according to a report from the World Economic Forum. A plan to build a dam on the Ganges River to augment water supplies in Bangladesh faces opposition from India. Water customers in Britain paid too much for services due to a mistake […]
