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Jennifer Möller-Gulland2018-08-27 10:01:002018-08-29 05:27:12Toxic Water, Toxic Crops -- India’s Public Health Time BombBreaking News
This week’s edition of What’s Up With Water includes coverage on:
- Devastating monsoon flooding in Kerala, India
- Water shortages in Delhi, India
- Drought in New South Wales, Australia What’s Up With Water condenses global water news into snapshot each week.

Daily Summary of Global Water News
A new report by the World Bank and the FAO finds that poor institutional choices are exacerbating water issues in the Middle East and North Africa. Experts warn that post-conflict recovery in Syria will be hampered by water shortages. China’s Jiangsu province sues a chemical producer for dumping waste lye into the Yangtze River. Tourism falters in flood-hit Kerala, India. Flood in eastern China cause over $1 billion in economic losses this month. Rains renew hope in parched Australia, but officials warn that drought will continue. Read More
Weekly Digest of U.S. Water Policy and Trends.
The EPA must revise sections of its rule guiding coal ash disposal, a federal appeals court says. A Senate hearing investigates response to potential Great Lakes oil spill in the Straits of Mackinac. The Trump administration aims to send more water to Central Valley farmers. The Bureau of Reclamation leases Colorado River basin water for a drying Rio Grande. A Michigan senator introduces two PFAS bills while the Senate’s Defense Department budget includes $45 million to reimburse local PFAS cleanup. The USGS updates a groundwater contamination data dashboard and sees a long-term phosphorus problem for Wisconsin lakes. The EPA announced another PFAS community meeting, in Kansas this time. And lastly, a Senate committee will hold a hearing on algal toxins in U.S. waters. 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.
Delhi Waits For Water
How the world responds to water challenges in the next months and years will have effects for generations.
Delhi is thirsty, even parched. As the 3rd largest population center in the world, its 25 million people need water, and lots of it, to survive. It’s clear that how India responds in the next months and years will have effects for generations. How will it mange the intensifying competition between water, food and energy in a changing climate?
It’s clear that getting enough water day-by-day is foremost on people’s minds. When the challenge is so great and children so thirsty, people often take their water sources into their own hands. Some entrepreneurs bring water by tank pulled by a tractor, and sell at an inflated rate. Others drill their own unsanctioned wells, some even in the middle of the street.









