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HotSpots H2O: Florida-Georgia Water Dispute Returns to Supreme Court

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March 1, 2021
The long-running dispute between Florida and Georgia over water resources reached the U.S. Supreme Court last week.
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Congress on Track to Approve Millions More in Federal Funding for Water Debt Relief

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February 25, 2021
First-ever federal program for household water-bill assistance could see another $500 million.
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Michigan Rivers Changing Due to Climate Disruption

February 24, 2021
Severe storms can lead to intensive flooding, soil erosion and disruption to fish populations. Timing is everything in nature.
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Climate Change is Affecting The Kind of Fish You Can Catch in Michigan's Inland Lakes

February 24, 2021
Warming waters are hard on some fish, such as walleye, and more favorable to others, such as smallmouth bass. With so many environmental stresses, it’s difficult to gauge the future of individual lakes.
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The Future of Lake Superior with Climate Disruption

February 23, 2021
With warming temperatures, fluctuating water levels and a series of extreme storms, Lake Superior is undergoing dramatic alterations amid climate change.
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Congress on Track to Approve Millions More in Federal Funding for Water Debt Relief

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February 25, 2021
First-ever federal program for household water-bill assistance could see another $500 million.
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Michigan Rivers Changing Due to Climate Disruption

February 24, 2021
Severe storms can lead to intensive flooding, soil erosion and disruption to fish populations. Timing is everything in nature.
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Climate Change is Affecting The Kind of Fish You Can Catch in Michigan's Inland Lakes

February 24, 2021
Warming waters are hard on some fish, such as walleye, and more favorable to others, such as smallmouth bass. With so many environmental stresses, it’s difficult to gauge the future of individual lakes.
Read more
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The Future of Lake Superior with Climate Disruption

February 23, 2021
With warming temperatures, fluctuating water levels and a series of extreme storms, Lake Superior is undergoing dramatic alterations amid climate change.
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Like Developing Nations, Texas Confronts Lingering Water Crisis 

February 22, 2021
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Under Pressure: The Oregon Community Desperate for Water

February 19, 2021
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Boil-Water Advisory in Effect, Low Water Pressure Impacts Austin Hospitals

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February 18, 2021
After days without power, millions in Texas are now facing a water crisis.
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Speaking of Water: How Can the Biden Administration Deliver on Environmental Justice Pledges?

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February 18, 2021
The Biden administration wants to correct a legacy of pollution and under-investment in low-income neighborhoods and communities of color.
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What’s Up With Water – March 1, 2021

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

  • In Taiwan, a sharp drought is forcing the tech industry to prepare for water rationing. Taiwan is one of the world’s top manufacturing sites for silicon chips that power everything from computers to cars to mobile phones.
  • In research news, a new report from the World Wildlife Fund finds that nearly a third of global freshwater fish populations are endangered. The near mass extinction of freshwater fish has a number of causes, such as damming rivers, draining wetlands, and over-extracting water.

This week, Circle of Blue looks at whether Michigan is prepared for an era of climate change.

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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.

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Water Debt

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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

Water, Texas

The story of Texas is the state’s devout allegiance to the principle that mankind has dominion over nature. In 2020, the pandemic, climate disruption, and ever-present challenges with water supply and use are writing a much different story of vulnerability to nature’s bullying, and to government’s uncertain capacity to adjust.

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

Legionnaires’ disease is the deadliest waterborne-illness in the United States

Present in the natural environment, the Legionella bacteria flourish in building plumbing systems. Reported cases of the pneumonia-like disease, spread by inhaling droplets contaminated with the bacteria, are rapidly rising, up five-fold since 2000.

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More than a million Texas residents still lack complete access to clean water. Forever chemicals affect the water supply of thousands near an Arizona Air Force base. The Cherokee Nation invested more than $1 million in water infrastructure projects. Egypt says it supports a proposal by Sudan to form an international committee to negotiate the filling of a controversial Ethiopian dam. Bosnia’s rivers are filling up with trash faster than authorities can clean them. Read More

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The House passes a pandemic relief package that includes $500 million for household water bill assistance. The EPA decides to regulate two PFAS chemicals in drinking water and proposes to monitor drinking water for 29 more. A House Democrat says he wants to increase authorized spending for two main federal water infrastructure loan programs. Bills to establish a water infrastructure trust fund were introduced in Congress. The DOJ files a lawsuit to close a Puerto Rico landfill that is polluting groundwater. The EPA inspector general will review the agency’s response to recommendations on how to avoid another Flint water crisis. And lastly, the White House updates the social cost of greenhouse gases, which is used in regulatory analyses. 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: Florida-Georgia Water Dispute Returns to Supreme Court

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March 1, 2021
The long-running dispute between Florida and Georgia over water resources reached the U.S. Supreme Court last week.
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HotSpots H2O: Minnesota Rolls Out Plan for PFAS Contamination

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February 22, 2021
Minnesota officials announced a multi-step strategy to address PFAS contamination in the environment.
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HotSpots H2O: Landslide Triggers Devastating Flash Floods in India

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February 15, 2021
The collapse of a mountain flank in India’s northern Uttarakhand state last week triggered devastating flash floods in the region.
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HotSpots H2O: Amid Water Crisis, Recent Storms Provide Some Relief to Istanbul

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February 8, 2021
Recent storms provided relief to drought-stricken Istanbul…
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