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The Stream, December 20: Water Rights Lawsuits

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New Mexico is suing the federal government over water allocations…
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The Stream, December 19: The Price of Reliable Water in Texas

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The Texas state water plan, released every five years, recommends…
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Federal Water Tap, December 19: Less Money, More Problems

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Budget and Taxes On Sunday the House Republican leadership backed…
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The Stream, December 16: Australia’s New Food Bowl

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An expansive new irrigation proposal could turn northern Australia…

The Stream, December 15: Water, Food and the Developing World

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Prices for farmland in the United States are rising as water-strapped…
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Plumbing WikiLeaks: Water’s Role in U.S. Foreign Aid

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Diplomatic cables show that the U.S. State Department aims to…
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The Stream, December 14: Melting Arctic Releases Greenhouse Gas

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Thawing permafrost is releasing large plumes of methane gas into…
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The Stream, December 13: Climate Quandary

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Delegates to the climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa,…
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Peter Gleick: Zombie Water Projects (Just when you thought they were really dead…)

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Not all zombies are fictional, and some are potentially really dangerous – at least to our pocketbooks and environment. These include zombie water projects: large, costly water projects that are proposed, killed for one reason or another, and are brought back to life, even if the project itself is socially, politically, economically, and environmentally unjustified.
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The Stream, December 12: Energy Projects Search for Water

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An Australian company found a water supply for one of the largest…
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Federal Water Tap, December 12: A Gnarly Year

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2011 ‘Tis the season for reflection. The National Oceanic…
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James Workman: Poetry, Slammed — Dambusting Celebratory Removals

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The most dramatic freshwater news stories of 2011 literally broke wide open in the Pacific Northwest's hydropowered region, as two major Washington currents were unplugged in in order to replenish an endangered, iconic, transrational species of fish. In that same spirit of silent wonder, and agape, the following 318 words began to arrange and then unglue themselves to honor these inspired, extraordinary events.