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Cities and drinking Water - rivers, ground water, policy and climate change

Cities and drinking Water - rivers, ground water, policy and climate change

Miami real estate - flooding, sea level rise, climate change

Miami real estate - flooding, sea level rise, climate change

Desalination, Innovation and the Water crisis

A collection of articles about Desalination, Innovation and the Water crisis

Micro-Plastic in Water - Recycling Issues

a collection of articles and resources examining the problem with MicroPlastics in Water - and Re...

Water crisis - and the threat of war, violence, tension

A collection of articles about the Water crises

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Article

Lost Water in Amman, Jordan

The desert city of Amman is running out of water. Meanwhile, officials fixate on gleaming visions of growth, perpetuating the fantasy that urban dy... (2023)


Article

Ethiopia’s Plans for the Renaissance Dam - Negotiations With Egypt and Sudan

As long as the Renaissance Dam remains an instrument in Ethiopia’s bid to control the Blue Nile, negotiations are doomed. (2020)


Article

Rising Seas Threaten an American Institution: The 30-Year Mortgage - The New York Times

Climate change is starting to transform the classic home loan, a fixture of the American experience and financial system that dates back generations. (2020)


Article

Simple, solar-powered water desalination

A completely passive solar-powered desalination system developed by researchers at MIT and in China could provide more than 1.5 gallons of fresh dr... (2020)


Article

How the scramble for sand is destroying the Mekong - BBC News

The Mekong river is being damaged by sand extraction, adding to calls for limits on sand usage. (2019)


Article

Water Thieves Steal 80,000 Gallons in Australia as Our Mad Max-Style Future Becomes Reality

Thieves stole roughly 80,000 gallons of water in a region of Australia that’s suffering from one of the worst droughts in the history of the countr... (2019)


Article

‘Breaches Everywhere’: Flooding Bursts Midwest Levees, and Tough Questions Follow - The New York Times

Hundreds of miles of levees in the Midwest have been overwhelmed by the floods, leaving “Swiss cheese” infrastructure and reigniting a flood contro... (2019)


Article

Desalination: The Dirty Truth About Turning Seawater Into Drinking Water

As countries in the Middle East, Africa, and elsewhere struggle to find enough freshwater to meet demand, they’re increasingly turned to the ocean.... (2019)


Article

More than ever, our clothes are made of plastic. Just washing them can pollute the oceans - Vox

How much plastic is your washing machine sending out to sea? (2018)


Article

The Water Crises Aren’t Coming—They’re Here

For eons, the earth has had the same amount of water—no more, no less. What the ancient Romans used for crops and Nefertiti drank? It’s the same st... (2018)


Article

Beer, Drinking Water And Fish: Tiny Plastic Is Everywhere : NPR

Plastic trash less than 5 millimeters long is in the things we eat and drink, and the air we breathe. Scientists are just beginning to study where ... (2018)


Article

Alan Turing’s chemistry hypothesis turned into a desalination filter | Ars Technica

A chemical reaction he suggested can now be done, and it makes a great membrane... (2018)


Article

The dirty industry of fast fashion is causing an environmental “emergency”

The $2.5 trillion fashion industry is the second-largest user (pdf) of water globally, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Euro... (2018)


Article

We’re Killing Our Lakes and Oceans. The Consequences Are Real.

We only need to look to the Mediterranean Sea, and, more recently, the Great Lakes, for dramatic illustrations of what lies in store if we don’t ac... (2018)


Article

'Day Zero' Approaches as South African City Runs Out of Water

Embattled leader of Cape Town warns coastal city will have to shut off taps amid devastating drought (2018)


Article

Off-Grid Devices Draw Drinking Water from Dry Air - Scientific American

Sunlight-powered moisture-absorbing technologies are becoming economical (2017)


Article

How to Build a City That Doesn’t Flood? Turn it Into a Sponge

Cities encourage potentially devastating floods by laying down asphalt and pavement. Could this be avoided by making them "spongier" and more absor... (2017)


Article

Can ice structures solve a Himalayan water crisis?

BBC, 2017: "Meet the engineers who create ice structures in India's far north, to try to solve persistent water shortages. (2017)


Video

The Surprising Solutions to the World's Water Crisis | The Future With Hannah Fry

Our survival depends on water, yet global reserves are rapidly shrinking. It's now replaced oil as the most likely cause of global conflict. Can te... (2024)


Video

Why Is Desalination So Difficult?

An overview of seawater desalination: removing salt to make drinkable water from the ocean (2023)


Video

Ethiopia, Egypt and water from the Nile: Why This Circle Could Spark Africa’s Biggest War

Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan and water from the Nile: Why This Circle Could Spark Africa’s Biggest War (2023)


Video

The Simple Genius of NYC’s Water Supply System

The Simple Genius of New York City’s Water Supply System (2022)


Video

How Libya Built Brand-New Rivers Across the Sahara

How Libya Built Brand-New Rivers Across the Sahara (2022)


Video

Water: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses the water shortage in the American west, how it’s already impacting the people who live there, and what God has to say about ... (2022)


Video

New Rule: America's Pipe Dream | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

Subscribe to the Real Time YouTube: http://itsh.bo/10r5A1BBefore we spread democracy around the world, America has to figure out how to spread wate... (2021)


Video

Michigan Dam(s) Fail! Tittabawassee River.

Overview of the Boyce Hydro System and What we know so far. LINKS: Drone Footage (2020)


Video

The Sustainable Development Goals – Action Towards 2030 | CAFOD and SDGs

CAFOD Published on Aug 16, 2016 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as part of Agenda 2030 Su... (2018)


Video

How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change | Allan Savory | TED

"Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert," begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk. And terrifyingly, it's hap... (2018)


Podcast

An Investment Expert Says Florida Homeowners Should Sell Property Now As Climate Impacts Worsen | WLRN

An expert on the impact of climate change on financial markets has advice for anyone thinking of buying a home in Florida: don’t. Spencer Glendon o... (2019)


Podcast

Beer, Drinking Water And Fish: Tiny Plastic Is Everywhere : NPR

Plastic trash less than 5 millimeters long is in the things we eat and drink, and the air we breathe. Scientists are just beginning to study where ... (2018)


Website

Flood Factor - Find Your Home's Flood Factor

Flood Factor is a free online tool created by the nonprofit First Street Foundation that makes it easy for Americans to find their property’s past ... (2020)


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