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The Stream, December 16, 2020: The Murray Darling Basin Plan Needs Major Adaptations By 2026
GLOBAL DAILY WATER NEWS The Murray-Darling Basin Authority reveals that the plan for the Australian basin needs to account for more frequent dry periods. The U.S. Supreme Court sides with New Mexico in a dispute over a decades-old water sharing compact. A new federally funded water infrastructure plan on Arizona’s Hopi reservation could bring clean […]
Commentary on SDG 6.4: Continued Lack of Storage Considerations in Water Scarcity Metrics
It remains unclear how the success of an ambitious goal to improve water efficiency and reduce water scarcity will be measured. Photo © J. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue The threat of water scarcity is always present in places like Australia’s Murray-Darling River Basin. A severe drought there in the early 2000s decimated the […]
Report: Water, Sanitation Integral to Ending World Hunger
Droughts, floods, and a lack of clean water slow the elimination of food insecurity in developing nations.
Federal Water Tap, February 16: Mississippi River Basin Grants Itself Two More Decades to Cut Nutrient Pollution
The Rundown Deadline extension for nutrient pollution in the Mississippi River Basin. More heat means more evaporation from western farmland and reservoirs. Western water supply forecasts coming soon. U.S. official promotes Nepal hydropower. “It takes time to improve water quality in very large water bodies like the Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico. And then […]
Recycled Water Facility in Australia Offers Lessons for Global Drought Planning
Recycling wastewater is cheaper than desalination and less environmentally damaging than river diversions.
‘Transformational’ Water Reforms, Though Wrenching, Helped Australia Endure Historic Drought, Experts Say
California, in the third year of its worst drought ever, faces challenges similar to those of Australia. A panel of water policy experts and Circle of Blue journalists questioned whether the nation’s most populous state has the resolve to enact similar reforms.
UN to Vote on Declaring Water a Human Right
The United Nations General Assembly will begin debating, and possibly vote on, a contentious and historic right-to-water resolution today.
Senate Committee to Vote on Clean Drinking Water Bill
Clean Drinking Water Bill emphasizes the importance of water and sanitation in U.S. foreign aid. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will vote at its next business meeting on a bill to provide safe drinking water to 100 million people, according to a committee staff member.
