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

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Two billion people don’t have safe drinking water: what does this really mean for them?

For billions, it can mean hours spent collecting water. For almost a million, it means dying from disease. (2025)


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

The Sea Versus St. Augustine

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


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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)


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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

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

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


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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)


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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

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)


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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)


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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)


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Rising sea levels and restoring Louisiana’s coastline - Curbed

Can engineering save Louisiana’s coastline? (2018)


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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

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)


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)


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Massive and toxic algae bloom threatens Florida coasts with another lost summer | Miami Herald

Algae blooms that began to appear on Lake Okeechobee this month have spread into canals on the west coast and pushed up against lake locks to the e... (2018)


Article

Flood Thy Neighbor: Who Stays Dry and Who Decides? — ProPublica

One Missouri town’s levee saga captures what's wrong with America's approach to controlling rivers. (2018)


Article

Coke claims to give back as much water as it uses. An investigation shows it isn’t even close

Earlier this year, Coca-Cola announced a plan to recycle the equivalent of 100 percent of its packaging by 2030, citing its success with a similar ... (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

What is Africa’s “Great Green Wall”? - The Economist explains

BUILDING a wall of trees across the width of Africa is a tall order. Solving the twin problems of land degradation and desertification poses a grea... (2018)


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Why it is so hard to fix India’s sanitation - The Economist explains

INDIA vies with China to be the world’s fastest-growing large economy, but its record on basic sanitation is dreadful. Around 450m people relieve t... (2018)


Article

What’s in New Zealand’s water? - The Economist explains

WINDY cattle have always had an impact on their environment. But in New Zealand, where pastures that once grazed sheep have been converted into dai... (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

Why Paris is all wet again - The Economist explains

IN mid-2016 the River Seine in central Paris burst its banks. It rose to 6.1 metres, briefly closed the Louvre and Musée d’Orsay, disrupted trains ... (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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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How 4.5 Million People Nearly Ran Out of Water

How 4.5 Million People Nearly Ran Out of Water (2022)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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

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


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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