The study runs counter to the conventional wisdom about deforestation’s effects on the water cycle.
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Energy companies should provide better data on fracking water use, and investors should push for quantifiable water targets, according to a sustainable investing advocacy group.
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Scarce surface water supplies will lead to an active market, research firm says.
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As they have been doing for decades, political leaders and water managers in Kansas are upending Western water law traditions that originated before the state was even part of the Union.
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Southern farmers are making changes now to wean themselves from the Ogallala Aquifer, a water source that gave rise to industrial agriculture and modern life on its plains.
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Though corn acreage is forecasted to rise slightly over last year’s planting, the biggest jump is predicted for sorghum, which uses less water.
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There are many questions and few conclusions right now about Detroit’s water system.
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Pollution is a major driver of water scarcity in China, especially in the places where economic growth is the highest and water resources are under the most stress — China’s dry northern breadbaskets and its biggest manufacturing hubs in the south and east.
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On March 12, the Economic Development, Trade, and Tourism Committee will ask what the state can do to encourage exports of water in bulk shipments.
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Would giving water a price help to limit its demand or would this invite abuse against what the United Nations has called a basic human right? Circle of Blue spoke with Brian Richter, of The Nature Conservancy, and Frederick Kaufman, a journalism professor and an author, about their opposing viewpoints.
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Limited water supplies and competing agricultural, environmental, industrial, and municipal interests challenge Australia’s water-trading system.
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As drought-ravaged corn supplies wear thin in the United States, global commodity markets are counting on favorable weather — and a big corn crop — in South America.
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Despite a new route, farmers still worry about groundwater contamination and property rights.
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China is the world leader for watershed payment programs. But in other regions, long-term funding and monitoring are challenges.
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The recent oil and gas boom in the United States has been good business for the Carlsbad, New Mexico water department. Perhaps too good.
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Click through the interactive infographic to see how China, the world’s largest nation and second-largest economy, has shifted its bread baskets to the north.
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Australia’s largest urban economy wants to build a parallel water system to deliver non-potable supplies.
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The northeast region of China, including Heilongjiang, Liaoning and Jilin provinces, is among the world’s most important breadbaskets.
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