A Desperate Clinch: Coal Production Confronts Water Scarcity
In contest with coal, water takes a beating.
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EPA Announces Study to Re-Examine the Health Risks of Hydrofracking
States have begun implementing stricter standards for the controversial natural gas drilling process.
Q&A: David Getches on Water Rights for
Indigenous Cultures
“How modern society is affecting our water culture and the rights of indigenous communities.”
Heart of Dryness: Reversing the Politics of Water Scarcity from the Kalahari to Suburbia
The final installment of our seven-part series of excerpts from James G. Workman’s Heart of Dryness examines how we define water rights for the Bushmen in Botswana as well as suburbanites in the U.S.
Freshwater Delivery in the Wake of Natural Disasters
A sample of water technologies invented to store, ship and provide one of the most critical resources for crisis recovery.
Peter Gleick: Turf Wars
Climate change is expected to bring less precipitation and more extreme droughts to certain parts of the world, causing electricity shortages in hydro-reliant countries.
Natural Gas Drilling: What We Don’t Know
It takes brute force and millions of gallons of chemical-laden watery sand to wrestle natural gas from the earth.
Underused Drilling Practices Could Avoid Pollution
By Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica Versions of this story were published in the Albany Times Union and the Times Herald-Record. As environmental concerns threaten to derail natural gas drilling projects across the country, the energy industry has developed innovative ways to make it easier to exploit the nation’s reserves without polluting air and drinking water. Energy […]
Circle of Blue Links
Africa News Southern Africa Water Wire IPS-hosted African News Feed Asian carp A list of eating instructions The Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries posted a video and instructions on carp consumption. Asian Carp Management An official U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Web site designed to coordinate control and management of Asian carp in the […]
Video: James G. Workman Discusses the Water and Climate Issues that Haunt Botswana’s Bushmen
The video above and corresponding transcript below are a Q&A author James G. Workman did with the book’s publishers, Walker & Company.
New York Drilling Study a Step Forward
By Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica New York’s recently released review of the environmental risks (PDF) posed by natural gas production in the Marcellus Shale offers the clearest picture yet of the chemicals used in the drilling process called hydraulic fracturing. The document makes public the names of 260 chemicals, more than eight times as many as […]
Nevada and Utah: Desert Aquifer Dispute in Snake Valley
A highly disputed bill sits on the desk of Utah Governor Gary Herbert that would allow the construction of a 300-mile pipeline to pump 16 billion gallons of groundwater from the Snake Valley aquifer to as many as 120,000 households in the growing desert metropolis of Las Vegas, Nevada.
