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New Mexico: Reusing industry wastewater?
This year, the New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission held a hearing in Santa Fe to seek public input on regulating wastewater discharge from the oil and gas industry. It ended up dealing a blow ...
Level 1 drought in all Kentucky counties
The Office of the State Climatologist and the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet, in coordination with the Kentucky Drought Mitigation Team, are issuing a Level 1 Drought Declaration for the Comm...
Corporations Plunder US West’s Water
Rural La Paz County, Arizona, positioned on the Colorado River across from California, is at the center of a growing fight over water in the American Southwest. At the heart of the battle is a questio...
New Mexico: Living on treated oil wastewater?
In 2022, the oil and gas industry in New Mexico produced enough toxic fracking wastewater to cover 266,000 acres (107,650 hectares) of land a foot (31 cm) deep. While the state’s drillers reuse over 8...
Navajo Nation: use the least, pay the most
This Is Life in America’s Water-Inequality Capital. It Might Be About to Change, as the magazine TIME writes in a long article with beautiful pictures. In the Navajo Nation—a sweeping landscape of red...
Class-action lawsuit against Veolia
As The San Diego Union-Tribute reports, Veolia Water North America, the private company hired by the federal government to operate and maintain the wastewater treatment plant at the U.S.-Mexico border...
Earth Gives Power Hour on Water
Join America’s Food & Water Watch Mary Grant and Madeline Kelsey on Monday, September 16 for @EarthGives ’ Power Hour, where they’ll discuss critical threats to our water supply and how you ...
September 16, 2024
California towns: no clean drinking water
Drinking water contamination is a chronic, insidious threat in California’s rural communities. Some have been waiting for clean water for years, as Rachel Becker writes on the Californian platform Ca...
US: Private waters for New Jersey?
Voters in two New Jersey municipalities will decide in November if private companies will take ownership of their water supplies, and a third will vote on its sewer system. New Jersey American Water h...
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