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The Global Rundown Environmental activists take legal action in an attempt to restore India’s polluted rivers. Contaminated water sparks a cholera outbreak in Malawi, sickening more than 500. The Indian Supreme Court delivers a verdict on the Cauvery water dispute, increasing Karnataka’s share of water. Stretches of Australia’s Great Northern Highway are underwater after Tropical […]
Communities in Bolivia use GPS equipment to resolve water and land-sharing conflicts.
The Global Rundown Rising ocean temperatures and poor waste management devastate the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef. Aging water lines in Omaha, Nebraska, break as frigid weather sweeps across the Midwestern U.S. Small towns and villages in the lower Himalayas of India and Nepal run low on water. New Delhi, India, raises water tariffs by 20 percent. […]
The Global Rundown Researchers reveal a new satellite-based drought monitoring tool that accounts for groundwater levels. Cholera resurges in Lusaka, Zambia, and is expected to worsen as the rainy season begins. Officials in northeast India claim Chinese construction projects are polluting the Brahmapurta River. Countless trees in the American West are expected to die as […]
The Global Rundown India’s Kashmir Region announces plans to accelerate hydroelectric projects over the next five year. The Flint City Council narrowly approves a 30-year drinking water contract with Detroit’s Great Lakes Water Authority. Saudi Arabia eases its import blockade on Yemen to allow “urgent humanitarian and relief materials” to reach desperate civilians. The storm […]
The Global Rundown India plans to conduct its first-ever ‘break analysis’ on more than 5,000 of the country’s largest dams. A federal judge orders Michigan and Flint officials to continue discussing the future of the city’s water supply. The scorching heatwave in Mediterranean Europe last month was made 10 times more likely by climate change, […]
The Global Rundown An $87 billion plan to connect several of India’s largest rivers could lessen the impact of floods and droughts in the country. Hurricane Harvey flooding causes thousands of tons of pollutants to leak from chemical plants in Houston, Texas. Warming temperatures and land-use changes in upstream Syria could lead to longer, more […]
The Global Rundown Levels of monsoon rainfall have ranged widely across India this season, causing droughts in some regions and floods in others. New research suggests that dangerous heat waves, made worse by the humidity from monsoon rains, could afflict three-quarters of the South Asia population by the end of the century. Nearly half of […]
The Global Rundown A new study links thousands of farmer suicides in India to changes in temperature and rainfall. India’s prime minister said climate change has contributed to floods and other natural disasters. There is little chance the world will limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, researchers found. Scientists also warned that the loss […]
The Global Rundown Coal-fired power plants in India do not have enough access to treated wastewater to use it for their operational needs, despite a policy encouraging such use, according to a recent report. Communities in Brazil that were hit by the Zika virus continue to have inadequate access to water and sanitation. China produced […]
The Global Rundown The city of Chennai, India is facing an acute drinking water shortage after a severe drought dried up the city’s main reservoirs. The controversial delta tunnel water project in California gained two key federal approvals. The rate of global sea level rise is increasing, scientists found. The world’s lakes, rivers, and wetlands […]
