The Stream, December 21, 2022: In Global Biodiversity Agreement, Freshwater Protection and Restoration Are Prominent
At the UN biodiversity summit, roughly 190 countries pledge to protect 30 percent of the world’s lands and waters by 2030.
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At the UN biodiversity summit, roughly 190 countries pledge to protect 30 percent of the world’s lands and waters by 2030.
Bad tasting and polluted tap water are not just infrastructure problems.
This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers extreme weather’s toll in Pakistan, Mississippi’s dual water crises, and a legislative win for affordable water in California.
Drought could worsen in parts of England this winter if rain fails to fall.
Poor residents in Monterrey are buying bottled water from companies that extract groundwater from beneath their feet.
At a rate of 400 feet per year, saltwater is migrating west from the ocean to once-secure inland groundwater reserves.
Rising rates hurt the state’s poorest residents.
Michigan cities rich and poor, big and small have been delaying maintenance on their water systems for decades. Now, even wealthy towns are suffering the consequences of past reluctance to pay for water system upkeep.
Federal and state governments begin to reverse course on underinvestment to address water’s true cost.
The Rundown Colorado River basin states approve a plan to release more water from high-elevation reservoirs into Lake Powell, to prop up the ailing reservoir. The White House restores a more expansive definition of environmental impacts for federal reviews. The OMB releases guidelines for using American-made materials in federal infrastructure bill projects. The FDA lowers […]