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HotSpots H2O: Palm and Sugarcane Plantations Strip Guatemalan Farmers of Land, Water Access

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February 18, 2019

The Rundown As global demand for biofuel increases, palm oil…

Permian Oil Boom Uncorks Multibillion-Dollar Water Play

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February 15, 2019

Producing oil produces even more water. Getting rid of it is a large and expanding business.

EPA Says It Will Regulate Two PFAS Chemicals in Drinking Water

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February 14, 2019

The EPA’s PFAS action plan includes steps for regulation, monitoring, detection, and cleanup.

HotSpots H2O: Despite Peace Deal, Water Scarcity Worse Than Ever in South Sudan

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February 10, 2019

The number of South Sudanese citizens facing food and water insecurity continues to grow following a five-year civil war.

With Rising Temperatures, Stark Changes Ahead for Asia’s Water Tower

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February 8, 2019

The melting of the Hindu Kush Himalaya region will alter water supplies for a quarter of the planet’s people.

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Permian Oil Boom Uncorks Multibillion-Dollar Water Play

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February 15, 2019

Producing oil produces even more water. Getting rid of it is a large and expanding business.

EPA Says It Will Regulate Two PFAS Chemicals in Drinking Water

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February 14, 2019

The EPA’s PFAS action plan includes steps for regulation, monitoring, detection, and cleanup.

With Rising Temperatures, Stark Changes Ahead for Asia’s Water Tower

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February 8, 2019

The melting of the Hindu Kush Himalaya region will alter water supplies for a quarter of the planet’s people.

Despite Unity of Purpose, Familiar Schisms Appear As California Lawmakers Rekindle Clean Water Funding Debate

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February 7, 2019

Three options on are the table for helping water utilities deliver clean water.

With Water Leasing Vote, Colorado River Indian Tribes Will Seek Consequential Legal Change

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January 30, 2019

Having gained an endorsement from its members, a tribe with one of the largest and most secure claims to water in the Colorado River basin will seek approval from Congress to lease water for use off of its riverside reservation.

Cleaner Coal Ash Disposal Gets Bipartisan Support in Virginia

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January 29, 2019

Virginia’s toxic legacy of storing coal ash in unlined pits near Chesapeake Bay rivers could be put to rest by a bill that now has bipartisan support.

Water Utilities Call on Big Data to Guide Pipe Replacements

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January 24, 2019

The drinking water industry says aging infrastructure is its top challenge. Can AI help?

Desalination Has a Waste Problem

January 22, 2019

Brine production is 50 percent higher than was assumed, UN study finds.

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From Michigan to the Nation – A Groundwater Emergency

Furious and fearful, residents are asking a simple but urgent question: what’s in my water?
But PFAS are the tip of the spear for threats to groundwater in Michigan and nationally. Nitrates, industrial chemicals, and pathogens have been swept underground for decades — aquifers used as garbage cans. What else is in the groundwater? And what are the risks?

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Uniting classic journalism and data literacy, Circle of Blue informs global audiences about the growing competition between water, food, and energy in a changing climate.

Daily Summary of Global Water News

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says it will issue draft regulations on PFAS contamination by the end of 2019. Several gold panners are likely dead in Zimbabwe after floods swept through two mines. Los Angeles County decided to dissolve the Sativa water district, which has served tainted water to customer for years. The “Pineapple Express,” an intense storm bringing heavy rain and snowfall, hits the U.S. West Coast. Food and water continue to run low in volatile Venezuela. Read More

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

Democrats release details of their Green New Deal. A Senate committee approved Andrew Wheeler’s nomination to helm the EPA, while President Trump nominated David Bernhardt to lead the Department of the Interior. President Trump mentions infrastructure in the State of the Union. Illinois senators ask for Legionnaires’ disease help. New York senators ask Andrew Wheeler to set a federal drinking water standard for PFAS chemicals. Federal scientists propose a Richter scale for atmospheric rivers. Energy regulators propose to speed up hydropower permitting at dams that do not currently produce electricity. The Army Corps asks for proposals for private-sector involvement in water infrastructure projects. 2018 was the fourth-hottest year on record. The EPA and Army Corps reschedule their WOTUS public hearing. And lastly, the BLM had a record-setting year for oil and gas leases. 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: Palm and Sugarcane Plantations Strip Guatemalan Farmers of Land, Water Access

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February 18, 2019

The Rundown As global demand for biofuel increases, palm oil…

HotSpots H2O: Despite Peace Deal, Water Scarcity Worse Than Ever in South Sudan

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February 10, 2019

The number of South Sudanese citizens facing food and water insecurity continues to grow following a five-year civil war.

HotSpots H2O: Resource Conflicts Rattle Nigeria in Lead-Up to Elections

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February 4, 2019

Conflict between farmers and herders over water and pasture shook Nigeria in recent years, leaving more than 1,500 people dead in 2018.

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HotSpots H2O: In Test of Regional Water Cooperation, Pakistan Inspects Indian Hydropower Projects

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January 28, 2019

India and Pakistan will rekindle the cooperative spirit of a nearly six-decade-old river-sharing treaty this week, when a delegation from Pakistan inspects two Indian hydropower projects along the Chenab River.

What’s Up With Water – February 11, 2019

This week’s edition of What’s Up With Water includes stories on:

– Water stress and conflict in Nigeria

– The effects of climate change in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region

– Continued coverage of the Vale mining disaster in Brazil

– These stories and more in this week’s edition of What’s Up With Water

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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.

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Henrik Skovby, Executive Chairman, Dalberg Group

I am happy that this meeting is taking place, for it represents yet another stage in the joint commitment of various institutions to raising consciousness about the need to protect water as a treasure belonging to everyone, mindful too of its cultural and religious significance.

Pope Francis