Farmers Employ Strategies To Reduce Risk of Drought Damages

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Drought is the leading driver of production risk in U.S. agriculture. Although flooding, early frosts, pests, and other risk factors…

Wall Street spends millions to buy up Washington state water

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Photo: Don Lundgren’s family ranch sits next to the Chewuch River. Lundgren hoped to sell water rights to Crown Columbia…

Brewers warn Supreme Court: Back the Clean Water Act, or beer will taste like medicine

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Photo: Geoff Bado and Lori White at their brewery, Zed’s Beer, in October of 2019. MARLTON, N.J. — Like craft…

‘Only Option’: Japan May Dump Fukushima Nuclear Plant Water Into Pacific Ocean

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Photo: The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, seen on Feb. 22, 2016. (TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA/AFP/Getty Images) Japan’s environment minister said the…

Household water and energy bills soar 30% in four years

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Despite general inflation running between 1.8% and a maximum of 4% per year since 2015, the cost of some of…

Turning conflict into collaboration on critical water challenges

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Institutes of Energy and the Environment's Lara Fowler uses Fulbright scholarship to research innovative solutions UPPSALA, Sweden — When dealing…

All about the humble water shrew

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Photo: Water shrew Erni Shutterstock The water shrew is well adapted to an aquatic lifestyle: they have a dark brown…

These Dams Needed Replacing 15 Years Ago. Now Texas will Drain Four Lakes Instead.

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Photo: The dam at Lake McQueeny, near Seguin, is one of four remaining in the Guadalupe River Valley in Central…

With nowhere to hide from rising seas, Boston prepares for a wetter future

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Photo: ON THE RISE Bostonians are getting used to flooding. Morrissey Boulevard (shown), near the campus of University of Massachusetts…

Fresh Thinking: Freshwater Science Is Being Pioneered in Arizona

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About 71 percent of the Earth is covered by water, and most of that is ocean. Only 2.5 percent is…