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Everyone Is Applauding National Geographic’s Cover — But Shock Lies Inside

National Geographic magazine has just launched an informative and shockingly revealing campaign called Planet or Plastic? and it is something…

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We can see how humans have altered Earth’s water resources

For millennia, humans have harnessed rivers, built dams, and dug wells to quench our growing civilization. Now, for the first…

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UN promotes nature-based solutions to growing water shortages

Photo Credit: Kelly Fike/USFWS The UN’s annual World Water Development Report 2018 has highlighted the need to use nature to…

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No glaciers, no water?

The world's largest rivers have their sources in glaciers – will the global population be left high and dry without…

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Drinking Water — World Health Organization

Key facts In 2015, 71% of the global population (5.2 billion people) used a safely managed drinking-water service – that…

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Canadian teen tells UN to ‘warrior up,’ give water same protections as people

Canadian water activist Autumn Peltier, a 13-year-old from Manitoulin Island, addresses the UN General Assembly on world water day. Her…

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Plastic Toxins World Epidemic — Plastic Pollution

Plastic is everywhere, including in the sea and its fish, in the soil and its plants, in our food and…

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‘My wife doesn’t shower any more’

Photo: People have been forced to queue for extra water to top up their rations in Cape Town, South Africa.…

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Oxygen Crisis in World’s Oceans

In the past 50 years, the amount of water in the open ocean with zero oxygen has gone up more…

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The Year in Water, 2017

Two months ago, as winter in the Southern Hemisphere turned to spring, authorities in Cape Town grew nervous. After the…

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