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Flood-Devastated Benin Requests Millions for Emergency Aid
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Torrential rains threaten to plunge the West African nation into crisis.
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Report Urges 10-Year Freeze in Mekong Hydropower Projects
The study responds to the growing private sector interest in the Lower Mekong Basin.
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Seattle University Bans Bottled Water on Campus
The university joins a nationwide movement to promote tap water over bottled water.
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World Bank Report Endorses Integrated Approach to Water Management
Rising population growth and food demand coupled with climate change will test World Bank’s water resource strategy
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Photo Slideshow: Tar Sands Oil Refinery Burdens a Detroit Community
Residents face the environmental and health consequences of a Marathon refinery expansion.
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A Desperate Clinch: Coal Production Confronts Water Scarcity
In contest with coal, water takes a beating.
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Indigenous People from Ecuador to Louisiana Forge Alliances Against Global Oil Spills
Indigenous leaders from Amazon rainforests to Bayou swamplands.
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Interactive Map: Top Ten Global Oil Spills
Details of the ten worst oil spills in history by volume, date, location, and company damages.
Bottomless Precedent: BP Gulf Gusher Endemic to Global Oil Problem
Big spills and bigger damage to people and water resources around the globe.
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India and Pakistan Dispute Water Use for Hydropower, Agriculture
India strives to redirect water, currently used for Pakistani agriculture, on the Kishanganga River for 330 megawatts.
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Remedies for Nitrate-Contaminated Water in California are Anything but Quick, Cheap
John and Rosenda Mataka never gave a thought to their tap water until 1995, when the city of Modesto took over the town of Grayson’s water supply wells and informed everyone that they had been drinking nitrate-contaminated water for over a decade.
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Q&A: ‘Crude’ Director Joe Berlinger on Chevron Oil in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Featuring Live Earth, Vanity Fair cover, and a CNN Hero Award.