Reuters | By: Amantha Perera | August 16, 2017: ADIGAMA, Sri Lanka (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Scorched by a 10-month drought that has killed crops and reduced residents to buying trucked-in water, Adigama’s young people are voting with their feet. At least 150 youth have left this agricultural village 170 Read more…
MIT | By: Peter Dizikes | GPE – August 16, 2017: Study: People willing to pay more for running water report much higher levels of happiness when they have it. Originally published January 14, 2013: If you’re reading this, odds are you’ve already used running water in your home today. Read more…
MIT | By: Peter Dizikes | August 14, 2017: One drought remedy: Keep infrastructure fast, cheap, and under control. If you live in the developed world, safe water is usually just a faucet-turn away. And yet, global warming, drought conditions, and population growth in coming decades could change that, ushering Read more…
Water Resources Research | By: Various Authors | GPE – August 15, 2017: Dam removal is widely used as an approach for river restoration in the United States. Originally published 31st July 2017: The increase in dam removals—particularly large dams—and associated dam-removal studies over the last few decades motivated a Read more…
Science Daily | Source: American Chemical Society | August 09, 2017: Lead in drinking water is a decades-old problem and still poses serious public health risks today. In response, utilities are replacing segments of old lead pipes that are causing the contamination. Surprisingly, researchers report that although partial line replacements Read more…
US News | By: Jovana Gec ~ Associated Press | August 10, 2017: Authorities and experts are warning that extremely hot and dry summer this year in the Balkans has decimated crops, dried rivers and hurt the animal world. Evidence is piling up that this year’s sizzling summer in central Read more…
Water & Wastewater International | GPE August 10, 2017: BATH, UK – Algae ponds are being used to remove nutrients and treat wastewater in a joint project between the University of Bath and utility Wessex Water. Originally published July 31, 2017: The project is investigating utilising algae ponds to treat Read more…
Forester Network | By: Margaret Buranen | August 04, 2017: A common purpose runs through many, likely most, stormwater projects in the greater Seattle area and other western Washington cities, certainly in the projects profiled in this story. Their shared goal is to improve and protect water quality in one Read more…
Science Daily | By: Kansas State University | August 02, 2017: A comparison of a section of the Arikaree River in northwest Kansas in 2006 on the left and in 1996 on the right shows the decreased water flow. Photos courtesy of Ryan Waters, Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Read more…
The Associated Press | ABC News | Aug 03, 2017: The Egyptian government has increased the prices of drinking water and sewage fees up to 50 percent as part of an extensive economic reforms program aimed at closing the budget deficit. The decision reported on Thursday goes into effect in Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Brett Walton | GPE – August 04, 2017: Scientists do not know how much groundwater is left. Originally published June 16, 2015: Population growth and agriculture are putting unsustainable demands on the world’s largest aquifer systems, particularly those in the planet’s dry midsection, according to Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Hidayah Hamzah Hidayah Hamzah | GPE – August 02, 2017: Flooding is the tragic norm in Jakarta, a megacity where major floods took 40 lives and cost IDR 32 trillion ($2.4 billion) in 2013. The floods were back early this year, and more are expected. Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Jim Carlton | August 1, 2017: The Agua Caliente tribe wants a say in how an aquifer under its Coachella Valley reservation is used. Deep beneath the desert east of Los Angeles is a Southern California treasure: a massive basin filled with fresh water. Read more…
Forester Network | By: Laura Sanchez | GPE – August 01, 2017: As utilities across America struggle to afford the repair of aging water infrastructure and climate change impacts water scarcity, the nation’s poor are simultaneously challenged to pay rising water bills. And this ever-expanding economic gap promises to present Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Dan Frosch | Updated July 30, 2017: Areas that were scorched by fires are particularly prone to flooding amid heavy rains. As wildfires have quieted in some parts of the U.S., Western states have turned their focus toward another problem this summer: floods. While Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Brett Walton | July 26, 2017: Fewer people, higher rates, a state report shows. Customers of the smallest utilities in California pay more than twice as much for sewer service than residents of the state’s largest cities, according to a rates survey conducted by the Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Brett Walton | July 24, 2017: Restrictions on utilities result in weak aid programs, study finds. Beginning this year, poor residents in Raleigh, the capital of North Carolina, could apply for a $US 240 annual credit on their water and sewer bill. The City Read more…
The Guardian | By: Senay Boztas | July 27, 2017: A pilot scheme in the Netherlands is sifting sewage for cellulose, which it says can be recycled into valuable products. When you flush the toilet, you’re probably not thinking about bike lanes or home insulation. But that’s where your used Read more…
Clean Technica | By: James Ayre | July 27, 2017: The release of “treated” wastewater from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations in Pennsylvania has led to regional watersheds being contaminated with radioactive materials, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, and heavy metals, according to a new study from researchers at Penn State, Colorado State, and Read more…
The Detroit News | By: Christine Ferretti | GPE – July 27, 2017: Detroit — The city’s water department began the controversial practice of shutting off water service on Wednesday to some of the nearly 18,000 residential customers with delinquent accounts. Originally published April 19, 2017: The Detroit Water and Read more…
The Guardian | By: Rebecca Smithers | July 26, 2017: Travellers are left to buy expensive and wasteful plastic bottles of water after passing through security, says consumer website MoneySavingExpert.com More than half of the UK’s international airports do not have free drinking water fountains installed in their departure lounges, Read more…
ARS Technica | By: Megan Geuss | July 25, 2017: Without planning and cooperation, EU countries could be up against a water problem. Unless you work at a coal, gas, or nuclear plant, you may not think about water when you think about electricity (certainly at a household level; they Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Codi Kozacek | GPE – July 26, 2017: Trust, cooperate, and innovate for safe water and thriving communities. Originally published May 16, 2016: America’s substantial water challenges are not secret any longer. Cities poisoned by lead-contaminated drinking water and toxic algae, along with crippling droughts Read more…
Waterworld International | By Paul Grad | GPE – July 25, 2017: Costing AUD$11.2 million, the Sydney Park project embodies Australia’s advanced stormwater management success. Helping the city to meet ambitious targets, as well as reusing water, what can the site share with other countries facing stormwater challenges? Sydney Park, Read more…
Clean Technica | By: James Ayre | July 21, 2017: More than 8.3 billion metric tons of plastics have been produced by humans since large-scale production began back in the 1950s, according to a new study published in the journal Science Advances. Almost all of this plastic now resides as Read more…
BN Americas | By: Javiera Gracia | July 20, 2017: Argentina has started building the Riachuelo Plant sub-fluvial sewage pipe which is expected to benefit 5mn people in Buenos Aires province. The government said in a press release the initiative is the most important of its kind in the province Read more…
The Guardian | By: Fiona Harvey | 20 July 2017: Hotels and local government in Cancún will pay premiums, and insurance industry will pay out if the reef is damaged by storms. A stretch of coral reef off Mexico is the testing ground for a new idea that could protect Read more…
The Third Pole | By: Katherine Purvis, July 19, 2017: The Indian government’s policy of using treated sewage water to run operations in coal-fired power plants is not economically viable and will do little to resolve conflicts over water use. An ambitious plan to reduce the dependence of India’s coal-fired Read more…
WaterWorld | By: Andrew Heath | GPE – July 21, 2017: Water infrastructure in the U.S. is in serious need of investment. The latest estimates from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suggest that the nation’s drinking water infrastructure needs $384 billion in new investment and our sewage and stormwater systems Read more…
Reuters | By: by Bate Felix | July 18, 2017: French utility EDF cut output at two reactors at its Tricastin nuclear plant in southern France on Tuesday, due to scorching temperatures, to reduce the amount of heated water from the reactors’ cooling system flowing into the Rhone river. The Read more…
Pacific Institute | By: Rapichan Phurisamban and Peter Gleick | GPE – July 17, 2017: In February of 2017, the Pacific Institute released a white paper entitled Drinking Fountains and Public Health: Improving National Infrastructure to Rebuild Trust and Ensure Access, which highlighted the limited evidence of a link between Read more…
Fortune International | GPE – July 16, 2017: The current focus of China on infrastructure development was explained in a special report originally published online by Fortune International on May 23rd 2013 – excerpted below: China is at a crossroads. Its leaders are committed to dramatically transforming the world’s second-largest Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Jiao Wang, Leah Schleifer and Lijin Zhong | GPE – July 13, 2017: Drought in Kenya and neighboring countries became so severe earlier this year that the government of Kenya declared a national disaster. Already, the effects have been devastating: Food production dropped, leaving more Read more…
UPI | By Brooks Hays | July 10, 2017 at 3:46 PM: “The future long-term trend based on paleoclimate reconstructions is likely towards diminishing precipitation,” researcher Sevag Mehterian said. July 10 (UPI) — New analysis of Iranian stalagmites have offered a detailed history of water resources in the region. The Read more…
Xinhua | Editor: Mengjie | 2017-07-10: BEIJING, July 10 (Xinhua) — China has made progress in addressing environmental misconduct at drinking water sources in cities along the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said Monday. In May 2016, the ministry began an operation to inspect the management Read more…
Xinhua| Editor: An | 2017-07-10: With an area of about 400 square kilometers, the Purog Kangri glacier in Tibet is considered to be the third largest glacier in the world. It is melting at an accelerated rate, which has caused the formation of plenty of rivers and lakes, according to Read more…
Bloomberg | By: Brian K Sullivan | 7 July 2017: Texas struggled through its driest year in history in 2011. Four years later was its wettest ever. The Mississippi River rose to all-time-high flood levels in 2011. In 2012, its second-lowest. After a six-year drought that made agricultural irrigation a Read more…
The Washington Post | By: Elizabeth Douglass | July 8 at 7:00 AM: LAKE STATION, Ind. — This hard-luck town just south of Chicago is weighing a decision confronting many small and midsize cities with shrinking populations and chronic budget deficits: whether to sell the public water system to a Read more…
Clean Technica | The Guardian | By: Steve Hanley | July 7th, 2017: Sea walls and barriers built by the Romans have endured for 1,500 years — far longer than anything made with modern concrete, which relies almost exclusively on Portland cement. A group of scientists was curious about Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By Brett Walton | GPE – July 07, 2017: Some wells gurgle and hiss before they die. Others expire with a puff of sand. Either way, the result is the same: no more running water. Report From Summer 2015: The rate of drinking well failures is Read more…
Newsdeeply.com | By: Mark Grossi | July 5, 2017: Drought conditions continue for thousands of rural residents in the San Joaquin valley who rely on groundwater. And the race to dig deeper wells is a losing game for small communities and those on private wells. MADERA, California – Evelyn Rios Read more…
Reuters | By Elias Gebreselassie | Tue Jul 4, 2017 | 6:57am EDT: Ethiopia is enlisting the cooperation of people in and around its forests to manage woodland better, hoping to protect the country from the effects of climate change while boosting development prospects for its population of 100 million. Read more…
BBC News | By: Matt McGrath | 5 July, 2017: The global use of untreated waste water from cities to irrigate crops is much more widespread than previously estimated, says a new report. According to this updated assessment, nearly 30 million hectares are now using untreated water within 40km of Read more…
Reuters | By: Gabriele Pileri and Isla Binnie | Wed Jul 5, 2017 | 9:05am EDT: Baking summer heat has forced Rome to close some of the drinking fountains known as “big noses”, or “nasoni”, that constantly gush fresh water on thousands of street corners, causing a public outcry. Hit Read more…
The Washington Post | By Darryl Fears | July 4 at 10:18 AM: The $19 billion bid to clean the Chesapeake Bay and restore its health rests on a simple plan: cut the amount of nutrient waste — involving nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment — that causes most of the bay’s Read more…
Reuters | Mon Jul 3, 2017 | 12:30pm EDT: Torrential rain lashed parts of central and south China on Monday, with floods damaging crops, forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes and killing at least 33, while the north wilted in a heat wave and drought-like conditions. Water levels Read more…
Reuters | Tue Jul 4, 2017 | 5:43am EDT: The Three Gorges and Gezhouba, two of China’s top hydropower plants, have closed capacity by as much as two-thirds, state media said on Tuesday, as torrential rains across the south triggered drastic steps to ease pressure on the Yangtze River. Days Read more…
Yale Environment 360 | By: Richard Schiffman | June 29, 2017: The breadbasket regions of India and Pakistan are rapidly depleting their underground aquifers. In a Yale e360 interview, climatologist Sonali McDermid explains why this overexploitation, combined with global warming, is creating an urgent need to change local farming practices. Read more…
The University Of Manchester | GPE – June 27 2017: Newsfacts: Graphene sieve turns seawater into drinking water; New research shows graphene can filter common salts from water to make it safe to drink; Findings could lead to affordable desalination technology. About Graphene Membrane: Graphene-oxide membranes have attracted considerable attention Read more…
The Guardian | By: Damian Carrington | Saturday 24 June 2017 07.01 BST: Freedom-of-information data reveals threat of drought that would devastate wildlife, with government slow to act on water management. A quarter of England’s rivers are at risk of running dry, with devastating consequences for wildlife, according to data Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Jim Carlton | June 23, 2017 8:00 a.m. ET: Project to replace decades-old structure near San Francisco Bay has seen delays and unexpected construction issues. The coastal mountains that frame the working-class city of Fremont, California – next to San Francisco Bay – harbor Read more…
Yale Environment 360 | By: Jim Robbins | June 20, 2017: Vast amounts of river-borne sediment are trapped behind the world’s large dams, depriving areas downstream of material that is badly needed to build up the marshes and wetlands that act as a buffer against rising seas. In September 2011, Read more…
Phys.Org | June 20, 2017: Rain or shine has new meaning thanks to an innovative, inexpensive and simple tactic developed by researchers at Florida Atlantic University that will really change how people think about watering their lawns. The tactic? A straightforward road sign. Outdoor water restrictions are a common water Read more…
Circle Of Blue | The Stream | The Global Rundown | June 19, 2017: Leaders in Africa say more must be done to fight desertification, improve agricultural opportunities, and create green jobs to prevent the continent’s youth from migrating or becoming radicalized. Flint, Michigan must approve a new long-term contract Read more…
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Zurich Report | Environmental risks | Global risks | May 26, 2017: This deep dive outlines the risks associated with water scarcity – and advises on how to mitigate those or adapt to them. Recent research shows that water scarcity is an even bigger problem than previously thought. The World Read more…
Circle Of Blue | WaterNews | By: Brett Walton | June 20, 2016: Flint lead scandal a factor in stirring action for other contaminants. Teflon — “Nothing messes with it,” reads the tagline on the latest ad campaign for the famed nonstick cookware. A fried egg, sunny side up, vaults Read more…
USA Today Network | By: Keith Matheny | Detroit Free Press | 2:20 p.m. ET June 8, 2017: They come from everyday products ranging from nonstick pan surfaces, carpet stain-proofing and water-resistant clothing. And they’re in almost every American’s blood: highly fluorinated toxic chemicals known as perfluorochemicals, or PFCs. They’re Read more…
Waterworld | By: Alanna Maya | Assistant Editor: Access to safe drinking water is a global crisis, which is why developing new, innovative ways to convert river water, wastewater and agricultural waste into clean water is critical. Thanks to new innovations in the field of treatment, promising technologies could eliminate Read more…
WaterWorld | By Sarah Fister Gale: Water security is a global issue and even in the United States, with our rich and diverse water resources, once relied-upon water systems are now at risk. California is slowly recovering from a five-year drought, the Colorado River is beginning to run dry in Read more…
The Guardian |By: Fiona Harvey | Thursday 1 June 2017 00.01 BST: Intensive farming cited as main reason for destroying natural barriers to deluge and making low lying areas more vulnerable to floods. Only a tenth of England’s extensive floodplains are now fit for purpose – 90% no longer function Read more…
Pacific Institute | Water Conflict Chronology List | Full List Shows 400 entries from 3000 BC to 2017: Below is a very small sample of recorded incidents – to see full details in the full list, please click here. Date Parties Involved Basis of Conflict Violent or In the Context Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Betsy Otto | Suzanne Ozment | May 16, 2017: Natural infrastructure like healthy forests can support clean water. America’s water infrastructure is in a state of disrepair, as evidenced by disasters such as the public health crisis in Flint, Michigan and dangerous flooding at the Read more…
The Washington Post | May 16 2017: Scientists find 38 million pieces of trash on a Pacific island Henderson Island, an uninhabited atoll in the South Pacific, is so isolated that it’s one of the few places in the world “whose ecology has been practically untouched by a human presence.” Read more…