Water Pricing - Circle of Blue
WEBJun 18, 2019 — Circle of Blue’s annual survey of water rates in 30 U.S. cities found the slowest rate of increase since the survey began in 2010. Reporter Brett Walton discusses financial trends that affect water bills for tens of millions of U.S. households. Circle of Blue. Speaking Of Water – The Price of Water 2019 – Brett Walton. 1.8K.
Circle of Blue | Water Reporting, Data & Convening
WEBSep 26, 2024 — Global Choke Point, a collaboration between Circle of Blue and the Wilson Center, explores the peril and promise with frontline reporting, data, and policy expertise. Our intense focus on water and its relationships to food, energy, & health has created a new model of front-line reporting, data collection, and convening.
Water Scarcity in India - Circle of Blue
WEBDec 4, 2018 — The country that pumps more groundwater than any other has reached a water supply and food safety reckoning that threatens to upend political and economic stability, and long-term public health. In this special report, building on years of on-the-ground coverage, Circle of Blue reveals how a nation …
Flint Water Crisis - Circle of Blue
WEBFor residents of Flint, whose concerns about water quality went unaddressed for more than a year and whose children may suffer the lifelong effects of lead poisoning, the crisis has exacted an indescribable cost and driven deep fissures in public trust. For government leaders and regulators — in Michigan and nationally — it has been a ...
HotSpots H2O: Kazakhstan’s Lake Balkhash Is ... - Circle of Blue
WEBJul 12, 2021 — By Christian Thorsberg, Circle of Blue Viewed from space, the Balkhash drainage basin resembles a shape of life: many thin blue veins, flowing towards their heart.
New Mexico’s Largest Fire Wrecked This City’s Water Source
WEBOct 25, 2023 — LAS VEGAS, New Mexico — The largest fire in New Mexico history began with a disastrous government agency blunder. Its consequences for land and a small northern New Mexico city’s water were magnified by man-made climate change. In the first week of April 2022, the U.S. Forest Service was setting a controlled burn in Santa Fe National Forest ...
HotSpots H2O: New UN Report Details Global Progress ... - Circle …
WEBJun 24, 2019 — A new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) finds that 2.2 billion people, more than a quarter of the global population, live far below contemporary standards for safe water and sanitation.
Perspective | More Attention Needed on Freshwater Biodiversity
WEBDec 16, 2021 — A recent report on environmental funding by 127 European foundations shows that freshwater work received less than two percent of the €745 million (US$873 million) in environmental grants awarded in 2018. Freshwater work ranked second-to-last among the 13 thematic-issue categories used to assess grant distribution.
Explainer: Who regulates U.S. drinking water, and how?
WEBSep 30, 2020 — The act authorized the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the first time to set national standards for contaminants in drinking water. The EPA has since developed standards for 91 contaminants, a medley of undesirable intruders that range from arsenic and nitrate to lead, copper and volatile organic chemicals like benzene.
Vanishing Lake Chad — A Water Crisis in Central Africa
WEBJun 24, 2008 — Once the third-largest source of freshwater in Africa, Lake Chad is disappearing according to new satellite images — putting millions of people in four Central African countries at risk of losing their primary water supply. The vast shallow lake, with a surface area equivalent to Lake Erie only 40 years ago, is now one-twentieth its previous ...