Coal Ash: Town’s Toxic Water Embodies National Challenge
Dirty legacy contaminates groundwater of an Indiana town.
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Droughts Drain ‘Venice of the East’
The tourism industry of one of India’s most popular destinations is drying up, as the city of Udaipur runs out of water.
Rains Bring Mumbai Long-awaited Reprieve from Drought
Mumbai’s weather goes from one extreme to another, as heavy monsoon rains follow a prolonged dry spell in western India.
US Projects Give Millions for Water and Sanitation to Tribes
The U.S. government is looking to get tribal homes on a par with the rest of the nation through a $90 million stimulus package for water and sanitation access.
Tribes Lose Snowmaking Battle
The religious objections of Indian tribes are not sufficient enough to stop a ski resort from using reclaimed sewage water.
Mumbai Prays for Rain
Citizens in Mumbai, India, are battling both blazing heat and a water shortage, as the city taps deep into its reserves to meet its daily water requirements.
Energy Industry Sways Congress With Misleading Data
By Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica The two key arguments that the oil and gas industry is using to fight federal regulation of the natural gas drilling process called hydraulic fracturing — that the costs would cripple their business and that state regulations are already strong — are challenged by the same data and reports the industry […]
Water Shortages Trigger Domestic Violence in Uganda
In many Ugandan families, water users are equal, but some are more equal than others.
Officials in Three States Pin Water Woes on Gas Drilling
By Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica Norma Fiorentino’s drinking water well was a time bomb. For weeks, workers in her small northeastern Pennsylvania town had been plumbing natural gas deposits from a drilling rig a few hundred yards away. They cracked the earth and pumped in fluids to force the gas out. Somehow, stray gas worked into […]
World’s Largest Rivers Are Losing Water, New Study Says
One-third of the 925 rivers analyzed from 1948 to 2004 have showed “significant changes” in water levels.
New Report: Turbid Water Stirs Up Future of Insecurity for Asia
Asia faces unprecedented water challenges, experts say, but solutions are within reach.
The Smoke of Change: Indigenous Colombians Pray for Water Conservation
More than 40 years ago, Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez founded in prose the fictional village of Macondo along the shores of a river of clear water on a bed of polished stones, white and big, like “prehistoric eggs.” The South American village flourishes until years of magical rain wash it away. Today, in Sumapaz […]
