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YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN The U.S. Supreme Court denies claims that Tennessee is taking Mississippi water from a shared aquifer. Industrial fisheries ran by international corporations are threatening the livelihoods of millions of Africans. One of Britain’s largest water utilities announces it will meet water quality targets in nine years. Bamboo could protect Ugandans from floods. […]
YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN Water experts at COP26 are urging world leaders to increase data sharing for better water management. A city in Oregon is suing to keep Google’s water use a secret ahead of a major vote to lend the tech-giant more water to cool its data centers. As temperatures climb and ground water supplies […]
YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN The Michigan city of Benton Harbor declares an emergency after high levels of lead were discovered in the local drinking water system. Climate change is worsening flooding in the city of Venice. Flash floods kill nearly 50 people in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand in India. California Gavin Newsom declares drought a […]
YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN Major global corporations’ plans to be ‘water positive’ lack accountability measures, experts say. Precipitation, flooding, and sea levels are rising in Maryland. Michigan’s governor pledges to replace lead pipes in Benton Harbor in the next year and a half. Water quality in England’s Windemere Lake is being threatened by raw sewage discharge. […]
YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN South African water activists are struggling to hold governmental agencies accountable for high levels of pollution in the country’s waterways. A new study finds nearly a quarter of U.S. infrastructure is at risk of becoming inoperable due to flooding in the next 30 years. Millions of people could lose access to water […]
YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN Rural, low-income towns across America suffer the most from climate disasters. In the American West, funds approved in 2014 for water storage projects in California have not been used and a town in Utah completely runs out of water. Extreme weather disasters have increased fivefold across the globe in the last 50 […]
A relentless interval of hot, dry weather, made worse by the buildup of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, has turned Glenn County, California, and the surrounding area, into a cauldron of flame, dust, and smoke.
YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN In the American West, dwindling water supplies force a first-of-its-kind construction moratorium in Utah, threaten the livelihoods of rural farmers in California, and jumpstart the green chile harvest in New Mexico. Flash floods hit the country of Oman as the government attempts to stop the spread of Covid-19. A pipeline bursts in […]
YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN An unstable glacial lake created by a landslide could pose a threat to a massive Chinese hydropower dam proposed to be built downstream. The island of St. Vincent was hit with severe flooding after a volcanic eruption devastated the Caribbean country last week. Four were killed and dozens were injured during a […]
Despite fears of collapse, water, sanitation, and hygiene draw closer to epic goal
YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN New mothers in the United States fear passing on PFAS contamination to newborns through breastfeeding. Records show 2020 was Utah’s driest summer. A task force in Michigan prepares to send its final recommendations on dam maintenance to the state’s governor. Water activists in Maine voice concern over the potential sale of a […]
By Kelly House, Bridge Michigan Bridge reporter Ron French contributed to this report. FLINT—As volunteers loaded her trunk with cases of bottled water Thursday at the RL Jones Community Outreach Center, a weekly ritual that involves waiting for hours in a line of cars that snakes far down the highway, Paula Stephenson simmered with […]
