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Category: Water

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  • EU
  • Water

Europe battles water shortages as severe drought sweeps the continent

“In Switzerland, we’re not used to the idea of droughts”, said Sonia Seneviratne, professor of land-climate dynamics at ETH Zurich research university. “We see ourselves as being this water fortress Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 Aug 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • Water

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

Posted On : 3 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • Water

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

Posted On : 10 Feb 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • California
  • Water

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

Posted On : 7 Feb 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • Water

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

Posted On : 1 Jan 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Water

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

Posted On : 6 Dec 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • California
  • Water

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

Posted On : 27 Oct 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Water

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

Posted On : 23 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • India
  • Water

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

Posted On : 19 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • India
  • Water

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

Posted On : 4 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • USA
  • Water

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

Posted On : 17 Sep 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • India
  • Water

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

Posted On : 10 Aug 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Water

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

Posted On : 23 Jul 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Water

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

Posted On : 16 May 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Water

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

Posted On : 14 May 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Water

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

Posted On : 8 May 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • USA
  • Water

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

Posted On : 19 Feb 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • USA
  • Water

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

Posted On : 24 Jan 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • USA
  • Water

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

Posted On : 24 Jan 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Environment
  • Water

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

Posted On : 23 Jan 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • Water

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

Posted On : 7 Jan 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Water

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

Posted On : 11 Dec 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • USA
  • Water

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

Posted On : 3 Dec 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • East Asia
  • Water

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

Posted On : 28 Nov 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • India
  • Water

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

Posted On : 27 Nov 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Indonesia
  • Water

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

Posted On : 26 Nov 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Water

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

Posted On : 22 Oct 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • East Asia
  • Water

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

Posted On : 25 Sep 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Water

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

Posted On : 3 May 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • USA
  • Water

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

Posted On : 2 Mar 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • USA
  • Water

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

Posted On : 2 Feb 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Water

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

Posted On : 24 Jan 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • Water

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

Posted On : 16 Jan 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Water

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

Posted On : 12 Dec 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Water

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

Posted On : 21 Nov 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia
  • Water

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

Posted On : 8 Nov 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Shale Oil
  • Water

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

Posted On : 29 Sep 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • Water

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

Posted On : 22 Sep 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Water

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

Posted On : 5 Sep 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Water

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

Posted On : 18 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • Water

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

Posted On : 16 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Water

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

Posted On : 16 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Water

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

Posted On : 16 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • United Kingdom
  • Water

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

Posted On : 24 Jul 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Water

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

Posted On : 9 Jul 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Iraq
  • Turkey
  • Water

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

Posted On : 4 Jul 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Water

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

Posted On : 4 Jun 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • Water

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

Posted On : 30 May 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Offshore
  • USA
  • Water

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

Posted On : 28 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • Water

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

Posted On : 20 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple

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