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Breaking Water News

Feds Release First Slice of Water Bill Assistance Funds

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Michigan’s Climate-Ready Future: Wetland Parks, Less Cement, Roomy Shores

June 9, 2021
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Marine Blooms of Harmful Algae Increasing in Europe, Much of the Americas

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Amid Dire Colorado River Outlook, States Plan to Tap Their Lake Mead Savings Accounts

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The Central California Town That Keeps Sinking

May 25, 2021
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Feds Release First Slice of Water Bill Assistance Funds

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Michigan’s Climate-Ready Future: Wetland Parks, Less Cement, Roomy Shores

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Marine Blooms of Harmful Algae Increasing in Europe, Much of the Americas

June 8, 2021
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Amid Dire Colorado River Outlook, States Plan to Tap Their Lake Mead Savings Accounts

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The Central California Town That Keeps Sinking

May 25, 2021
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Congress’s Stealth Water Infrastructure Deal

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May 20, 2021
The American Rescue Plan Act allocated $350 billion to states, tribes, and local governments. Some of that money is available for upgrading water systems.
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In Alaska, Climate Research Struggles to Incorporate Indigenous Knowledge

May 19, 2021
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Green Infrastructure: Cities Around the Great Lakes Plan for a Changing Future

May 18, 2021
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Innovative Partnerships and Exchanges are Securing the Gila River Indian Community’s Water Future

May 13, 2021
The Gila River Indian Community is restoring its “lifeblood” back through innovative partnerships and water exchanges.
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Great Lakes Water Diversions Could Be More Numerous

May 12, 2021
Should Michiganders be worried?
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Extremely Dry Conditions Spill Across the American West

May 11, 2021
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On Eve of Line 5 Shutdown Deadline, Enbridge Vows to Defy Michigan Order

May 11, 2021
What happens if Enbridge refuses to abide by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s order?
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More WaterNews

What’s Up With Water – June 7, 2021

Featured coverage from this week’s episode of What’s Up With Water looks at:

  • In research news, a study has found that lakes across the Earth’s middle latitudes are being starved of oxygen, threatening aquatic life with suffocation.
  • In China, officials at the Ministry of Water Resources advised that major flooding may strike again this summer, especially in the central and southern regions.
  • In the United States, documents obtained by the news site Undark showed that failure of aging dams across the country could flood major toxic waste sites.

This week, Circle of Blue reports on private water storage accounts in a shrinking Lake Mead.

Circle of Blue · What's Up With Water 6.7.21

Special Features

Ready Or Not

The Great Lakes region is frequently touted as one of the most climate-resilient places in the U.S., in no small part because of its enviable water resources. But climate change also threatens water quality, availability, and aging water infrastructure by exposing existing vulnerabilities and creating new ones.

Read The Full Series Here

Water Debt

Circle of Blue Investigates
Most Americans give little thought to their water bills, paying them on time and in full. But for a subset of people in this country, water debt is a constant and menacing presence in their lives. Circle of Blue investigated the scale of customer water debt burdens in large U.S. cities.

Read The Full Series Here

WaterPoint: How Communities Deal With an Evolving Pandemic in an Era of Dwindling Water

A pillar of improvements in human health in the last century, water, sanitation, and hygiene are also a foundation of the world’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Read The Full Series Here

Daily Summary of Global Water News

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The Delhi Development Authority proposes to cut daily water use by 17 percent over 20 years. Water managers could restore depleted groundwater basins in California by capturing floodwaters, a study finds. A new report says three million people in Afghanistan are at risk as drought worsens. A rural Canadian community could receive clean tap water for the first time in more than two decades. An Indigenous community in Bolivia struggles to survive as the country’s second-largest lake runs completely dry. Read More

Weekly Digest of U.S. Water Policy and Trends.

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The Department of Health and Human Services released $166.6 million in funding for a low-income water bill assistance program. Negotiations on an infrastructure package continue. The EPA determines that a proposed mine in northern Minnesota may affect downstream waters, opening the mine to a legal challenge. And lastly, runoff in the upper Missouri River basin is forecasted to be well below normal. Read more

HotSpots H2O examines regions and populations that are most at risk from water-related unrest and conflict. It reveals the challenges individuals confront — and the solutions they discover — as they face the greatest challenge of the 21st century: water.

HotSpots H2O: The Toto, One of the World’s Smallest Ethnic Groups, Face Water Shortages Along the India-Bhutan Border

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HotSpots H2O: When War Destroys Water Systems, Children Suffer the Most

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HotSpots H2O: Israeli Airstrikes Intensify Palestine’s Water, Humanitarian Crises

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HotSpots H2O: Amid American West Megadrought, Montana’s Reservoirs Are Running Dry

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An extreme megadrought is sweeping across the American West, a consequence of climate change that is threatening urban water allotment, indigenous water security, and ecosystem balance.
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How the world responds to water challenges in the next months and years will have effects for generations.

ChokePoint:

The conflicting demand for water, food, and energy is the defining challenge of our century. Global Choke Point, a collaboration between Circle of Blue and the Wilson Center, explores the peril and promise with frontline reporting, data, and policy expertise.

No one is better positioned to deliver groundbreaking knowledge on the critical resource of global water than Circle of Blue.

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To respond to the world’s greatest, most urgent challenges, we need trusted information, clear context, and solutions-focused dialogue. Circle of Blue cuts through the complexities of global development. Through knowledge and informed action, we can make a better future.

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Pope Francis
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