Fresh water

Report: Kentucky Water Systems Serving 1.5 Million Violated Health Standards

Kentucky is ranked near the top of a list no one wants to be on: the states with the highest…

8 years ago

Record Missouri flooding was manmade calamity, scientist says

Intersection of Interstate 44 and Route 141 in St. Louis County, Mo., on Dec. 30, 2015. Water levels more than…

8 years ago

This sister earth now cries out to us –Pope Francis

Pope Francis makes a religious, ethical, humane, scientific, and practical case for stewardship of this earth and its waters, with…

8 years ago

New York expands drinking water protections for millions

Last week, New York’s leaders did more to protect the Empire State’s rivers and drinking water than at any other…

8 years ago

Choosing water over gold: El Salvador bans metallic mining

Deep divisions mark El Salvador: between left and right, rich and poor, gangs and police. Yet last week, when the…

8 years ago

“Superman Is Not Coming”: Erin Brockovich on the Future of Water

Erin Brockovich speaks at the 2016 Arizona Ultimate Women's Expo at the Phoenix Convention Center. Phoenix, Arizona, October 9, 2016.…

8 years ago

Animas [riverine artwork]

The Animas River flows through the mountains of Southwestern Colorado, through what was once the undisputed land of Ute and…

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Metro Vancouver Launches Unflushables Campaign

Metro Vancouver is rolling out a new campaign, The Unflushables, in hopes of educating residents to stop dumping items down…

8 years ago

How do we prevent today’s water crisis becoming tomorrow’s catastrophe?

“Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” In these lines, Samuel Taylor Coleridge made a prescient point: while seawater…

8 years ago

Water is more than a strategic resource. We need to acknowledge that

This has been a long time coming. The changing of the guard on the 38th floor of the United Nations…

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