The U.S. farm sector, more productive and richer than ever, is a major water polluter.
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Water Law Features
Today, the Clean Water Act is 40 years old. Though it brought substantial benefits to urban areas, water quality problems — some old, some new — persist in the United States.
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Montana may have lost the bottom, but the state was awarded — and entrusted — all that floats to the top as part of a public trust authority to protect water resources.
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Canadian and American advocates join to promote big oversight idea of the “commons.”
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The largest reservation in the U.S. has one of the nation’s highest poverty rates — more than 40 percent — and very little water infrastructure. Many residents pay nearly 50 times the municipal cost for water, which instead is delivered from a tank in the back of a truck, often resulting in water-borne intestinal illnesses.
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On Monday, the Nevada state engineer will hear opening arguments in a water-rights case that has been ongoing for more than two decades. If passed, the construction of an extensive infrastructure network could dramatically raise the average monthly water bill for many of the state’s residents, as well as impact public lands and endangered species.
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Montana and Wyoming have taken their transboundary water dispute to the Supreme Court. Wyoming won the first round. But others await in a case that will help decide how much water is really available to generate energy and to produce food in one of the nation’s driest regions, as well as who has access to that water.
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The report, one of two ordered by Congress on water and energy, has been delayed for years.
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Residents and lawmakers in Nebraska mull their options for protecting key groundwater sources.
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Preliminary report describes an infant cellulosic biofuels industry with a mandate to grow up fast.
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Court blocks dumping into a popular fly-fishing stream, sets precedent to protect Michigan waters from pollution.
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Federal judge rejects Asian carp injunction as Congress passes a ban on their import.
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A new era of dam building brings uncertainty to the 50-year-old water truce between India and Pakistan.
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Water use and greenhouse gas emissions are major concerns with oil interests plays.
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“How modern society is affecting our water culture and the rights of indigenous communities.”
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Like all spellbinding human dramas the United Nations Climate Change Conference, which today entered its second and last week, represents the accumulated chapters of an urgent script – the fate of the planet.
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