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Manatees in Florida - habitat restoration and water management issues
Egypt - the Nile and water issues
Venice Italy - flooding, tides, water issues
Cities, the Hoover Dam, water issues, droughts and the American West (USA)
Cities and drinking Water - rivers, ground water, policy and climate change
Water Crises, Rivers, Droughts, and Wildfires
Miami real estate - flooding, sea level rise, climate change
A collection of articles about Desalination, Innovation and the Water crisis
A collection of articles about Florida, water management, development and pollution
A collection of articles about Florida, water management, development and pollution
A collection of articles about Florida, water management, development and pollution
a collection of articles about the UN Sustainable Development Goals - #6. Clean Water and Sanitation
a collection of articles about flooding, and cities around the world prepare and deal with natural disasters.
A collection of articles about Florida, water management, development and pollution
A collection of articles about the Water crises
a collection of articles about the UN Sustainable Development Goals - #6. Clean Water and Sanitation
a collection of articles and resources examining the problem with MicroPlastics in Water - and Recycling Issues
a collection of articles about flooding, and cities around the world prepare and deal with natural disasters.
A collection of articles about Miami - Biscayne Bay, water management, development and pollution
A collection of articles about Florida, water management, development and pollution
a collection about Hurricanes and other Natural Disasters
a collection about water usege and Coca-Cola, Nestle, bottling and Water
Israel, Egypt, Jordan and the Middle East - Agriculture and Water Innovation
Water & Electricity in South Africa
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

America's West Faces A Megadrought. What's The Solution? | On Point

The western U.S. is no stranger to drought. But this isn't any dry spell. More than 70% of the West is exceptionally parched. Could it be a permane... (2021)


Article

Water goddess’ research may one day provide clean drinking water to millions – FIU CASE NEWS

News, events and opportunities from FIU's College of Arts, Sciences & Education. (2021)


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

The Sea Versus St. Augustine

Rising waters put many historic coastal cities at risk of losing their cultural pasts: can they be saved? (2020)


Article

Why Venice Is Disappearing - Rolling Stone

Flooding in the historic city is about more than climate change — bad engineering and corruption are also to blame What’s happened in Venice thi... (2019)


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

Whatever happened to the water wars? - Daily chart - The Economist (2019)

More of them have happened than most people think (2019)


Article

Toxic Algae Blooms Really Have Become More Intense, Study Finds - gizmodo

A new study out Monday seems to confirm an unpleasant reality: Potentially toxic algae blooms in the world’s freshwater lakes have become more inte... (2019)


Article

Opinion | Bottled Water Is Sucking Florida Dry - The New York Times

The state’s aquifers are shrinking, yet corporations want to appropriate even more of them. (2019)


Article

With More Storms and Rising Seas, Which U.S. Cities Should Be Saved First? - The New York Times

As the dangers and costs of climate change rise, policymakers are facing painful choices about how to decide which communities to protect. (2019)


Article

Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here - Scientific American

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understandi... (2019)


Article

Jakarta Sinking: How Subsidence Endangers Indonesia’s Capital | Harvard Political Review

When Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth was released in 2006, some of its most striking images depicted the flooding of major cities from dramati... (2019)


Article

Jakarta Is Sinking. Now Indonesia Has to Find a New Capital | WIRED

By 2050, 95 percent of North Jakarta could be submerged. Blame rising seas, but also the fact that the city is sinking 10 inches a year. (2019)


Article

Toxic Algal Blooms: Danger Ahead | Key News for Key Biscayne

Dr. Larry Brand has spent a professional lifetime analyzing South Florida waters, researching a loosely related group of ancient organisms lumped a... (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

Opinion | Miami Battles Rising Seas - The New York Times

In 2017, voters agreed to finance adaptation efforts through property taxes. Now the first phase of those projects is underway. (2019)


Article

Rivers: drainage basins of the world

Maps of drainage basins of the world in great detail and gorgeous colors created by 33-year-old Hungarian cartographer Robert Szucs. (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

A $3 billion problem: Miami-Dade’s septic tanks are already failing due to sea rise | Miami Herald

Miami-Dade County has more than 100,000 homes that still use septic tanks, a form of waste water treatment that sea level rise is breaking. More th... (2019)


Article

Chicago Dug the World’s Biggest Flood-Stopping Tunnel. What if the City Got It Wrong?

The Deep Tunnel was supposed to provide “a total solution to the flood problem.” It hasn’t. (2019)


Article

Rising sea levels and restoring Louisiana’s coastline - Curbed

Can engineering save Louisiana’s coastline? (2018)


Article

Here’s Where the Post-Apocalyptic Water Wars Will Be Fought

A United Nations report published last week said we have about a decade to get climate change under control, which—let’s be honest—isn’t likely to ... (2018)


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

How to use seawater to grow food – in the desert || BBC

An ambitious project plans to use seawater and solar power for agriculture. But is it technically feasible? (2018)


Article

Miami Will Be Underwater Soon. Its Drinking Water Could Go First || Bloomberg

The city has another serious water problem. (2018)


Article

A Hidden Carcinogen in Water: How the SDGs Can Help – Social Impact Movement

When people think about sustainable development goals, they often envision arid developing countries or communities struggling in the wake of a nat... (2018)


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

Panama Canal: Inside the World’s Largest Cargo Shipping Bottleneck Today | WSJ

The Panama Canal is running out of water, threatening to slow down the global supply chains and economies that depend on it. 40% of all U.S. contai... (2023)


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

Why rivers shouldn't look like this | It's Complicated

The quintessential image of a river you might recognise from post cards and paintings – nice and straight with a tidy riverbank – is not actually h... (2023)


Video

Egypt plans to green its desert

Egypt plans to green its desert Egypt is growing at two million people a year. Urban infrastructures can'... (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

How 4.5 Million People Nearly Ran Out of Water

How 4.5 Million People Nearly Ran Out of Water (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

Why Venice Floods Every Year

Insider 5.63M subscribers Every year Venice, Italy, experiences seasonal flooding, which is known as acqua alta. The video dives into why Veni... (2020)


Video

PBS - Episode 902: Toxic Algae: Complex Sources and Solutions

For the past two decades, the residents of Martin county and the surrounding areas have been faced with a silent curse. A guacamole thick mat of bl... (2019)


Video

The New Tropic - A not-so-sweet history of Florida's algae crisis | Facebook

Sugar: bad for you and bad for our waterways. (2018)


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

The Great Wall of Louisiana

The IHNC Lake Borgne Surge Barrier also called the Great Wall of Louisiana is a storm surge barrier constructed near the confluence of and across t... (2018)


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

Made in Israel: Agriculture

The Official 700 Club Published on Sep 3, 2013 Gordon Robertson looks at Israel's remarkable agricultural innovation, with special focus on the... (2018)


Video

How Israel became a leader in water use in the Middle East - PBS NewsHour

PBS NewsHour Published on Apr 26, 2015 Over the past few years in Israel, the country's water shortage has become a surplus. Through a combinat... (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

Depave Paradise - podcast - 99% Invisible

The largest city in North America, Mexico City, sits at the center of a high valley, 7,000 feet in the air, surrounded by volcanoes. Over a millenn... (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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