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The Global Rundown Hospitals fail to meet international water and sanitation standards. A city reliant on groundwater sees levels drop while illegal sand mining threatens water supplies in southern India. Desalination is more attractive for a gold mine proposed in Mexico after a water-price hike. Protestors in Baltimore oppose a plan to shut off water […]
Circle of Blue reports on groundwater supplies and pollution from California and Texas to India and the Middle East.
New legislative proposal focuses on less expensive, short-term fixes. Photo courtesy Sarah Gross/ U.S. Army via Flickr Creative Commons Col. Frederic A. Drummond Jr., Chicago District commander, speaks to Senator Joe Donnelly (D-IN) during a Congressional Staff tour at Brandon Road Lock and Dam, Joliet, Ill., April 22, 2014. Click image to enlarge. By Codi […]
Prime Minister Modi and President Obama this week need to talk about 21st-century development.
Water rises on the world agenda.
Courts and Prime Minister Modi press for new operating system to stem pollution.
Surge in oil and gas production has seen more spills that are harming water supplies. Photo © J. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue Just west of the Mackinac Bridge, twin oil pipelines cross the Straits of Mackinac, a fast-flowing channel that connects Lake Michigan to Lake Huron. A series of oil pipeline spills in […]
Just look at the Texas drought — California could be waiting years to recover.
Reflections of the banquet of bedlam that is modern India Photo © Keith Schneider / Circle of Blue Much of the world’s tea is raised in northeast India. Workers pick tea leaves in a tea garden in Assam. Click image to enlarge. GUWAHATI, India — Beggars prowl the sidewalks of every city I’ve visited — […]
Six-state region at head of American recovery.
Era of indifference greets droughts, floods, storms, tsunamis. Photo © Keith Schneider / Circle of Blue India’s policy of free water and free energy to farmers is draining groundwater reserves, polluting air and rivers, and generating economy-weakening brownouts with millions of electric water pumps that irrigate rice and wheat crops so big they rot in […]
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations are insufficient for guarding against pesticides, heavy metals, solvents, and other hazardous chemicals being put into waterways from sewage treatment plants, according to an investigation by the agency’s internal watchdog. Hazardous chemicals come under two sets of regulations. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) applies to most circumstances, and […]
