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What Matters, a new anthology by David Elliot Cohen, continues to make waves with its water-focused photojournalism. CNN recently featured a photo essay by Circle of Blue contributing photographer Brent Stirton and the Pacific Institute’s Dr. Peter Gleick The slide show, narrated by Gleick and featuring Stirton’s photography, highlights the global water and sanitation crisis. […]
China plans to build a string of new dams throughout Tibet.
OAKLAND, California — Clear, integrated, domestic and international water policy at the federal level, is the focus of a new report by the Pacific Institute. Dr. Peter Gleick outlines his suggestions in a three page open letter to the next president of the United States. Covering the gambit from international conflict resolution to United States […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) just announced that it does not intend to regulate levels of perchlorate — a component of rocket fuel linked to thyroid problems in pregnant women and young children — in public drinking water. Although the agency does intend to issue a health advisory after its final decision, according to […]
Safe water equals better health. Members at the recent annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) have taken this equation seriously, announcing their aspirations to improve access to quality water and health care for 8.5 million people across the world. The commitments in sum totaled over $400 million and extend over the next five […]
Delaware petroleum corporation CITGO faces a $13 million fine for its recent Clean Water Act violation.
Ron Rivera spent his life traveling through Latin America, Africa, and Asia teaching communities how to purify their water. Shown how to construct his famous bacteria-killing, silver-coated clay pot by Guatemalan chemist Fernando Mazariegos, Rivera dedicated twenty-five years to the practice. Using simple technology, Rivera’s pots eliminate at least 98 percent of the contaminants that […]
Discharging selenium into watersheds remains a major problem in the American West by Sarah Haughn Circle of Blue Mining mogul Johnson Matthey, Inc. is pleading guilty to allegations that it conspired to cover up illegally high levels of the toxic mineral selenium in the industrial run-off of its silver and gold refining plant in Utah. […]
Farmers cope with water pollution in their efforts to feed millions by Sarah Haughn Circle of Blue Cities above and below the equator rely on the fruits of urban agriculture, literally. According to a new report, many farmers use human sewage to irrigate that agriculture. The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) estimates that 800 million […]
Social theorists believe that meaning exists in relation, in the exchange of words and images between people. David Elliot Cohen’s new anthology, What Matters, takes this theory to heart — bringing leading photojournalists, scientists and thinkers together to explore and celebrate the ways in which photojournalism moves humanity to care, and to act. Featured in […]
The 1972 Clean Water Act, an act that should serve to regulate the flow of pollution into U.S. water bodies, might receive restorative treatment if Congress passes new legislation to revamp the rules, suggests an op-ed in the New York Times. The risks to the nation’s waters grow by the day. A devastating internal document, […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – While the Senate has moved to pass the Great Lakes Compact, it has stalled on legislation that would address the invasion of harmful non-indigenous species into the basin. The AP reports that Senator Daniel Inouye, chairman of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, is pushing to get clean-up standards established for the […]
