In the Ocean, It’s Snowing Microplastics
As long as there has been marine life, there has been marine snow — a ceaseless drizzle of death and waste sinking from the surface into the depths of the Continue Reading
Predicting how dams will alter river temperatures and disrupt fish populations
The Colorado pikeminnow was once a prized catch. The toothless, torpedo-shaped fish had dark, tender, flavorful meat and came in absurdly large sizes, especially for a minnow. In the early Continue Reading
Los Angeles Is Building a Future Where Water Won’t Run Out
At a groundwater cleanup facility in Los Angeles, water will pass through tanks that remove any remaining hydrogen peroxide, producing water that is safe to drink. L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Continue Reading
China Is Running Out of Water and That’s Scary for Asia
Nature and geopolitics can interact in nasty ways. The historian Geoffrey Parker has argued that changing weather patterns drove war, revolution and upheaval during a long global crisis in the Continue Reading
One of California’s Wealthiest Counties Could Run Out of Water Next Summer
To increase supply during the severe drought, Marin County is considering buying water from agricultural areas and piping it across the San Francisco Bay. Welcome to the future in Marin Continue Reading
One of California’s Wealthiest Counties Could Run Out of Water Next Summer
To increase supply during the severe drought, Marin County is considering buying water from agricultural areas and piping it across the San Francisco Bay. Welcome to the future in Marin Continue Reading
Up to 20 Percent of Groundwater Wells Are in Danger of Running Dry
As many as one in five wells worldwide is at risk of running dry if groundwater levels drop by even a few meters, according to a new study appearing Thursday in the Continue Reading
How One of the World’s Wettest Major Cities Ran Out of Water
In the winter of 2015, Chennai suffered its worst inundation in a century, severely disrupting flights, train and bus services and forcing the postponment of half-yearly school exams. Source: Strdel/AFP/Getty Continue Reading
How a Water Crisis Hit India’s Chennai—One of the World’s Wettest Cities
Climate change is bringing rising sea levels and increased flooding to some cities around the world and drought and water shortages to others. For the 11 million inhabitants of Chennai, Continue Reading
Water shortages in US West likelier than previously thought
There’s a chance water levels in the two largest man-made reservoirs in the United States could dip to critically low levels by 2025, jeopardizing the steady flow of Colorado River Continue Reading
India’s Water Crisis Is Becoming a Problem for Modi
On a scorching summer day in northern India, Ajay Singh sat next to his water pump and scanned his 10 acres of farmland. He once used to grow rice each Continue Reading
States fight Trump water quality rule meant to clear energy project delays
A coalition of 21 attorneys general has filed suit in federal district court to block the Trump administration’s efforts to rein in state delays of energy infrastructure through their water Continue Reading
EPA backs away from regulating controversial chemical in drinking water
The Environmental Protection Agency has decided against placing limits on a chemical known to cause potential brain damage in fetuses and newborns and thyroid problems in adults. The agency won’t Continue Reading
The Pandemic Is Laying Bare a Global Water Crisis
Days after he shared images of municipal workers disinfecting the streets of Addis Ababa with high-powered hoses, Mayor Takele Uma Banti found himself struggling to explain a 72-hour water shortage. For the 4.8 million Continue Reading
Did The Plastics Boom End Before It Even Started?
Three years ago, the UN declared plastic pollution a global crisis , more than three decades after the discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch –a collection of marine debris Continue Reading
Analysis: The Dalles water supply forecast reaches highest level of season, remains well above last year
The Dalles water supply forecast has continued to increase, reaching the highest level so far this season and 24% higher year on year on increased precipitation, according to Northwest River Continue Reading
E.P.A. Is Letting Cities Dump More Raw Sewage Into Rivers for Years to Come
The Environmental Protection Agency has made it easier for cities to keep dumping raw sewage into rivers by letting them delay or otherwise change federally imposed fixes to their sewer Continue Reading
EPA Releases New Clean-Water Rules Scaling Back Federal Oversight
The Environmental Protection Agency released new federal clean-water regulations Thursday that are less restrictive than those adopted under the Obama administration, eliminating many seasonal streams, small waterways and wetlands from Continue Reading
Trump Removes Pollution Controls on Streams and Wetlands
The Trump administration on Thursday will finalize a rule to strip away environmental protections for streams, wetlands and other water bodies, handing a victory to farmers, fossil fuel producers and Continue Reading
China has made huge strides cleaning up its polluted rivers
China has made huge strides in cleaning up its rivers and lakes over the past 15 years, suggesting clampdowns on pollution are working. While major rivers such as the Yangtze Continue Reading
High mountain ‘water towers’ are in trouble
HIGH IN THE Himalaya, near the base of the Gangotri glacier, water burbles along a narrow river. Pebbles, carried in the small river’s flow, pling as they carom downstream. This Continue Reading
The Water Wars that Defined the American West Are Heading East
Water stress, a hallmark of the American West, is spreading east. The shift is evident on Casey Cox’s family farm in Georgia’s agricultural heartland, where she turned on five giant Continue Reading
Overreliance On Hydropower Is Causing A Crisis In Southeast Asia
The swirling currents of the once mighty Mekong shrunk by drought and increasingly crippled by dams point towards an unprecedented crisis of water governance along the more than 4,900 kilometers Continue Reading
India’s Ominous Future: Too Little Water, or Far Too Much
Throughout India, the number of days with very heavy rains has increased over the last century. At the same time, the dry spells between storms have gotten longer. Showers that Continue Reading
Mining turned Indonesian seas red. The drive for greener cars could herald a new toxic tide.
Where forested hills dip into the sea, Sahman Ukas scoops up rusty-red topsoil. His hands hold nickel that is more concentrated than many of the world’s richest deposits. It’s no Continue Reading
The World Can Make More Water From the Sea, but at What Cost?
Desalinated seawater is the lifeblood of Saudi Arabia, no more so than at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, an international research center that rose from the dry, empty Continue Reading
Planned power plants in Asia likely to face water shortages
Climate activists have raised concerns about the number of power plants planned for development in Asia, but the threat of climate change appears to be just one reason to think Continue Reading
Many ports support open loop scrubbers use in their waters: CSA 2020
The Clean Shipping Alliance, or CSA 2020, has received written approvals and no-objection letters from more than 20 ports covering Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australasia indicating they have no Continue Reading
More than 80 vessels queued in and outside of the Mississippi River due to high water
High water on the Mississippi River has slammed the brakes on coal and petcoke loadings in the US Gulf, with more than 80 vessels queued, according to S&P Global Platts’ Continue Reading
Gone in a Generation
Across America, climate change is already disrupting lives. The continental United States is 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than it was a century ago. Seas at the coasts are nine inches Continue Reading
The non-stop waste of water
Every year, water shortages affect more than one-third of the world’s population. In 2017, even Rome — ancient pioneer of urban water provision — saw its myriad public drinking fountains Continue Reading
Glaciers Are Retreating. Millions Rely on Their Water.
Tuyuksu Glacier Kapchagay Reservoir Lake Issyk-Kul Almaty Lake Balkhash Russia Mongolia Kazakhstan Kazakhstan Iran Afghanistan Pakistan China China Kyrgyzstan India Arctic Ocean Arabian Sea Bay of Bengal Flows from Kazakhstan’s Continue Reading
Trump rolls back decades of Clean Water Act protections
American bullfrog floating at the surface of a farm pond in Kentucky USA The Trump administration has taken aim at removing environmental federal protections for wetlands and isolated streams from Continue Reading
Coast Guard orders cleanup of massive 14-year oil spill in Gulf of Mexico
Following Washington Post report, U.S. Coast Guard told Taylor Energy to contain and clean up the spill, which has leaked more than a million barrels of oil since 2004, or Continue Reading
Drought Tests Australia’s Model Water Market
But the return of severe drought to an area of eastern Australia more than twice the size of Texas is testing the system. Gary Wight, 46 years old, thinks he Continue Reading
A Breakthrough for Hydraulic Fracturing
A revolutionary groundwater quality study provides new evidence that ‘fracking’ operations are safe to nearby water sources. This piece presents the opinions of the author. It does not necessarily reflect Continue Reading
Duke Energy says dam breached at North Carolina plant and coal ash may be flowing into Cape Fear River
Floodwaters on Friday breached a dam that contains a man-made lake connected to a Duke Energy power plant in North Carolina, possibly causing coal ash to flow into the nearby Continue Reading
The Water Crises Aren’t Coming—They’re Here
Here’s a concept: paper water. Paper water is water the government grants certain farmers who are drawing water from a river or a watershed in, say, California. The phrase describes Continue Reading
Vital US reservoir OK for now, but shortages are looming
The Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona creates Lake Powell, which holds only 43 percent of its capacity this year. The reservoir is part of a system that supports 40 million Continue Reading
After ‘Peak Water,’ the Days of Plenty Are Over
In a recent paper in Science of The Total Environment, a team of Chinese researchers created a model of the Urumqi No. 1 catchment in Xinjiang, China, and made a Continue Reading
Texas, refineries urged to plan storm shutdowns to cut pollution
Texas environment regulators should coordinate shutdowns of oil refineries and other petrochemical plants during major storms to avoid big releases of air pollution like during last year’s Hurricane Harvey, a Continue Reading
Agency Says Lake Mead Could Drop Below Critical Threshold
Nevada’s Lake Mead, the biggest reservoir in the West, is on track to fall below a critical threshold in 2020, according to a new forecast by the Bureau of Reclamation. Continue Reading
British groundwater monitors review oil and gas risks
British authorities said Monday they were working to examine the potential vulnerability to groundwater supplies from onshore oil and gas activity. The British Geological Survey and the nation’s Environment Agency Continue Reading
Falling Lake Mead Water Levels Prompt Detente in Arizona Feud
Arizona is the odd state out in agreeing to dramatically curtail water use from the Colorado River, raising tensions in the Southwest as extreme drought conditions return. At issue are Continue Reading
Why water is a growing faultline between Turkey and Iraq
They are from different generations, different countries, and live 1,100km apart. Yet the fates of Suleyman Agalday and Nashwa Nasr are intertwined by policies transforming the Tigris River that has irrigated Continue Reading
H2Oh! Water is actually two liquids disguised as one
“WATER is very strange,” says Anders Nilsson. He should know: he has been studying the stuff for most of his working life. His claim may be hard for the rest Continue Reading
The Next Big Crisis: Drinking Water
You might be looking at the next global crisis right now. Because as easily as most people get a clean drink out of the tap, billions of people can’t take Continue Reading
Offshore Drillers Get Some, Not All, They Sought in Trump Reform
The Trump administration is moving to relax some offshore drilling requirements imposed in response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster but is rebuffing the oil industry’s plea for bigger changes. Proposed Continue Reading
California hydro generation, water levels jump; outlook still shows drought: state
Water supply levels in California were bolstered in March but still sit below normal, after several late winter storms increased snowpack and reservoir levels, according to the California Department of Continue Reading
Cities around the world should prepare for running out of water
It’s called “Day Zero” : when Cape Town, South Africa’s bustling port city, sees its water taps run dry, and its population thrust into a perilous situation. Originally projected for Continue Reading