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World Water Day, held on 22 March every year, is an annual United Nations Observance focusing on the importance of freshwater.
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Santa Clara Sues Chemical Companies
California: Santa Clara County sues chemical companies over PFAS in drinking water. Santa Clara County filed a lawsuit claiming DuPont, 3M and other companies knowingly contaminated local drinking wat...
The American Dream (Water Not Included)
Real estate developers are running a dark-money campaign to overturn new housing rules — and ignore basic laws of nature. For most of human history, a simple axiom for survival seemed to prevail: Don’...
Nevada: Data Centers’ Demands For Energy
Data center growth demands more energy. Is Nevada prepared? To operate, data centers require enormous amounts of electricity. Not only to run the massive machines, but to cool them. And they’re cooled...
Backup Power to Face Wildfires
Backup power and full water tanks should be required in face of wildfire, lawmaker says. It’s been more than seven years since fire hydrants in southern Ventura County rapidly ran dry as the Thomas fi...
EPA Employees To Be Fired ‘Immediately’?
1,000 EPA Employees Could Be Fired ‘Immediately’: What Does That Mean For The US Water Industry? Last week, more than a thousand employees at the U.S. EPA received a worrying email: “As a ...
Devastating Toll of Factory Farm Pollution
The Devastating Toll of Factory Farm Water Pollution in Iowa. From safe beaches, to affordable drinking water, to their own family members and lives, Iowans are losing a lot to factory farms’ pollutio...
Water is the other US-Mexico border crisis
Water is the other US-Mexico border crisis, and the supply crunch is getting worse. Immigration and border security will be the likely focus of U.S.-Mexico relations under the new Trump administration...
Texas Troubles: Oil Wells Leaking
Texas regulators grapple with a growing problem: old oil wells leaking polluted water. Two years after lawmakers created a $10 million program to address leaking wells in rural counties, none of the m...
Water and the Eaton and Palisades fires
Opinion: Why no water system is built with capacity for fires like Palisades and Eaton. By Tom Majich. In the immediate aftermath of the devastating Eaton and Palisades fires, local water agencies hav...