Central America | Water News
Ned Breslin

Every time I see Mayor Mendoza, I am greeted by his warm smile and a firm hug. When I saw him yesterday, however, the mayor of the Honduran municipality of San Antonio de Cortes had something important he wanted to discuss, something that he had been thinking about since I had last seen him eight months ago.

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Tehuacan Video Essay

The Tehuacán Valley captures the tragedy and triumph of Mexico’s worst freshwater crisis in decades. In this video, meet Francisca Rosas Valencia, a leader who is working to better her community’s water future.

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For years, the state took as much water as it could from Lake Mead; now it plans to leave some in the reservoir.

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Hundreds have died in Colombian floods, as cooler sea temperatures affect regions around the Pacific; climate change seen as a possible cause.

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National delegations, in addition to interest groups, are pushing water higher on the climate agenda.

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Peruvian asparagus and Costa Rican pineapples illustrate the threats global agribusiness poses to the environment.

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One of the reasons for the explosive growth in the sales of bottled water in the past two decades (the average American now drinks nearly 30 gallons of commercial bottled water per year, up from 1 gallon in 1980), is the disappearance of public drinking water fountains.

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Concern, though, that desert solar power plants could compromise desert habitat.

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Details of the ten worst oil spills in history by volume, date, location, and company damages.

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BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Water Energy Deepwater Horizon
Photo by the United States Coast Guard
NEW ORLEANS – Debris and oil from the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform float in the Gulf of Mexico after the rig sank April 22, 2010. Click the above photo for a slideshow.

The oil spill resulting from an oil rig explosion last week could be leaking oil at five times the rate previously assumed.

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