● Romania is releasing reservoir water into the drought-stricken Danube River in an effort to bring the country’s only nuclear power plant back online.
● Residents in the greater Berlin area are growing increasingly unhappy with officials allotting large amounts of groundwater for industry, rather than for drinking water.
● Consistently damaging monsoon rains in the Philippines are stoking public outrage over failing or non-existent flood-control projects that many residents say are scams.
● The number of people globally whose drinking water contains toxic levels of manganese may be four or five times higher than originally thought, new research suggests.
