Scientists who use the GRACE satellite say they need more resources to maximize its usefulness – for predicting floods and droughts.
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Policy + Politics
Thanks in large part to the Green Revolution that catalyzed grain production in the mid-1960s, India ended the perennial fear of famine. But achieving food abundance has overwhelmed India’s mammoth and unwieldy bureaucracy, drained its freshwater reserves, and strained the energy sector and electrical grid.
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The U.S. Agency for International Development last week unveiled a new strategy for water that sets criteria for project selection and numeric targets for people served.
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Less money means fewer staff positions and fewer research projects at the nation’s universities.
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A water rights case to be argued in the U.S. Supreme Court this week has national implications.
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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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Water security should have a common language, and it should be a priority for global sustainable development goals, according to a new report by UN-Water.
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The water department could soon operate as an independent authority.
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There are many questions and few conclusions right now about Detroit’s water system.
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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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Official United Nations figures claim that 2.5 billion people lack access to adequate sanitation. But new research from the University of North Carolina puts the total at more than 4.1 billion people.
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Learn more about the history of trading water in Australia’s three markets in this infographic.
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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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Only 75 percent of allocated funds have been awarded since Congress created the drought-warning program seven years ago, and future funding remains unclear as NIDIS prepares for Capitol Hill on Thursday.
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Climate change and population growth will force the basin to add new supplies, harness demand, and change operational agreements, officials say.
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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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