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An Encroaching Desert Intensifies Nigeria’s Farmer-Herder Crisis

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How climate change and human activity are driving violence between farming and pastoralist communities.

Perspective | Water is the New Carbon

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Global water security is increasingly threatened. Accounting for water use and risk ought to have the same urgency with which we address carbon.

Inflation Weighs On U.S. Water Utilities

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Water leaders worry that rising prices -- for everything from lead pipe replacements to treatment plant repairs -- will cause a historic federal infrastructure investment to fall short of lofty expectations.

Arizona’s Future Water Shock

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Smaller cities. Soaring water prices. Scorched desert towns. 

Unsafe Yield

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Severe drought, dead wells, political division push Arizona steadily closer to water supply peril.

HotSpots H2O: In Besieged Ukraine, Water Again a Locus of Conflict

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Water has long been a source of geopolitical conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Three weeks into the Russian invasion, the damage is mounting.

War in Ukraine Lengthens List of Violent Acts over Water

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A new report details the rising number of clashes across the planet that are connected to water

At Peak of Its Wealth and Influence, Arizona’s Desert Civilization Confronts A Reckoning Over Water

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State’s powerful will to grow is challenged by extreme heat, deep drought, and serious water-related stress.

IPCC Climate Report: Six Key Findings for Water

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Scientific body warns of ‘rapidly closing window’ for action

Line 5’s Impact on Climate Change Being Reviewed as Part of Tunnel Decision

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What keeping Line 5 operating means for climate change.