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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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Daily Summary of Global Water News
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
Weekly Digest of U.S. Water Policy and Trends.
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