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Big Banks Finance Water-Damaging, Climate-Warming Energy Projects
Despite commitment to reduce national emissions, development banks spend $US billions on coal-fired power plants.
Colorado River’s Tale of Two Basins
Water diversions upstream increase risk in stressed watershed.
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Israel’s Mediterranean Desalination Plants Shift Regional Water Balance
Desalination could remake the region’s politics and ecology.…
Algal Blooms Are No Accident For Florida Everglades and Estuaries
Political, financial, and ecological barriers block solutions in South Florida.
Small Lake Erie Algae Bloom Predicted, But Work Isn’t Done
Researchers hone plans to cut phosphorus and mitigate future blooms.
Popularity of Big Hydropower Projects Diminishes Around the World
Big water, cost-savings from new wind and solar construction.
Murders of Activists Defending Safe Water and Environment Rise Sharply
Assassins kill without apprehension or prosecution.
Slideshow: Water On The Prairie
North Dakota’s prairie pothole wetlands are under threat from rapid oil and agricultural development.
Toxic Algae Flourish As Everglades Solution Eludes Florida
The blooms plaguing coastal estuaries are a symptom of a system out of balance.
North America Clean Energy Plan Could Boost Canadian Hydropower
Leaders pledge more use of low-carbon fuels.
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California Fresh Groundwater Reserves Triple in New Assessment
Researchers urge caution in underground disposal of oil waste,…
Water Scarcity, Public Protest Slow Foreign Farmland Purchases
New GRAIN study finds changed conditions in international “land grabs.”