Delegates Seek More Definition, Much More, in Barcelona Climate Talks
Circle of Blue’s senior editor, Keith Schneider, lays the backdrop for the climate negotiations, highlighting the United States’ shortfalls.
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Gas Execs Call for Disclosure of Chemicals Used in Hydraulic Fracturing
By Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica Two prominent gas industry executives have directly addressed one of the key environmental concerns surrounding the expansion of natural gas development by calling for the disclosure of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing. The statements – made last week by Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon and Range Resources CEO John Pinkerton – […]
Peter Gleick: Temperance Flat Reservoir Falls Flat
Rigged feasibility study shows desperation for new surface reservoirs.
Video: Toxic Coal Ash Town in Indiana
A small Indiana town is slated for cleanup as an EPA Alternative Superfund Site.
Coal Ash: Town’s Toxic Water Embodies National Challenge
Dirty legacy contaminates groundwater of an Indiana town.
Drinking From The Sea
Pressed by growing urban populations, drier and warmer climates and the need to fortify supplies stretched by the increasing worldwide thirst, metropolitan and national governments on five continents are building record numbers of industrial plants to use a nearly alchemic technology to produce drinking water from the sea.
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 […]
New Legislation to Restore Watersheds & Wilderness in American West
Protection for 2.1 million acres of land and 1,000 miles of rivers.
Water Designer Turns Box Thinking Inside Out
While the recent UNESCO Water Report encourages stakeholders to climb out of their respective ideological boxes, a packaging innovator from Michigan reassures consumers boxes aren’t so bad after all. As it turns out, drinking water packaged in boxes might be the happily sustainable medium for those unlikely to sacrifice the portable, disposable commodity. Benjamin Edgar, […]
Dry Reservoir Leaves Tampa One Day of Water
A stagnant layer of unpotable water is all that remains of Tampa’s Bill Young Reservoir.
Here’s Something New in Australia: A Plan That Takes Water from Agriculture
At First Aghast, Victoria Grower Leads Campaign in Support of Water-Saving Construction The sun-dried expanse between Shepparton and Deniliquin, New South Wales, is dotted with irrigated hay, wheat and other crops by Keith Schneider Photographs by J. Carl Ganter Circle of Blue Reports Northern Victoria is so flat that it takes a few days for […]
Outsourcing Irrigation, Farming Discontent
World Economic Forum Report Warns Water Scarcity May Breed New Form of Colonization, Urges Trade Reforms Madagascar, blessed with an abundance of fresh water and other natural resources, may hold the key to solving global water shortages, but at what price for the developing nation? by Sarah Haughn Circle of Blue As February wanes, riots […]
