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A short history lesson about water shortage, water wars, and drought in the United States.

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Except for energy, virtually every other feature of Qatar’s national existence comes from someplace else.

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In much of the Corn Belt, too much rain has left fields too soggy to sow.

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Water meters allow for greater equity of supply, but traditionally have been feared because of possible implications toward water utility privatization. But the tides are turning around the world, and water meters are increasingly being seen in a positive light.

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Doha's skyline has risen in less than a decade.

An arresting array of architecture alongside a sea burdened by rising concern about how development affects ecological and economic security.

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Circle of Blue’s director J. Carl Ganter and senior editor Keith Schneider find that, in this country of just under 2 million, desert extremes meet a high-octane economy, testing both the limits and responses to the competition between water, food, and energy.

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Circle of Blue intern Jinah Park summarizes the first three weeks of spring at the Traverse City office.

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A U.S. Senate hearing on drought and energy provided some statements to ponder.

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The long road to information about a federal study of fracking’s effect on groundwater in Wyoming.

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The four days of shock and outrage in Boston — which started on Monday with the Boston Marathon bombings and climaxed on Friday in Watertown with a flurry of bullets — was history in the making. Circle of Blue’s Keith Schneider was there for part of it.

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The most beautiful country in the world, the United States, presents spectacular scenes of nature in every state, like the Cape Cod shoreline on Earth Day in Chatham, Mass.

Circle of Blue’s senior editor Keith Schneider spent Earth Day on the East Coast, reflecting on the celebration’s past accomplishments and future goals.

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Over the last decade, Azzam Alwash has helped revived Iraq’s legendary marshes.

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With her recent move from Alabama to Hawaii, Circle of Blue reporter Codi Yeager-Kozacek finds that, in the middle of an ocean, freshwater challenges abound.

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When it comes to water management, Circle of Blue reporter Brett Walton thinks Kansas is a beacon on the plains.

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Canada province pursues a new energy production path.

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Think you have what it takes to be a Circle of Blue intern?

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It’s apparent why a great number of Michigan residents wonder about the risks of fracking and whether the state and the federal government ought to shut the technology down. The industrial breakthrough that now enables developers to recover oil and natural gas from hydrocarbon-rich shales 6,000 to 10,000 feet beneath the surface is potentially fraught with danger.

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For World Water Day 2013, Skoll World Forum and Circle of Blue asked four of the world’s leading water experts to weigh in. Here is what J. Carl Ganter, director of Circle of Blue, had to say about water’s connection to 21st-century journalism.

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Choke Point: Index is the first dynamic, open-source data and journalism project to explore the linkage between water, food and energy.

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The humanitarian agency lacks the money to serve the millions displaced by the Syrian civil war.

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