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For billions, it can mean hours spent collecting water. For almost a million, it means dying from disease. (2025)
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)
News, events and opportunities from FIU's College of Arts, Sciences & Education. (2021)
As long as the Renaissance Dam remains an instrument in Ethiopia’s bid to control the Blue Nile, negotiations are doomed. (2020)
Rising waters put many historic coastal cities at risk of losing their cultural pasts: can they be saved? (2020)
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)
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)
The Mekong river is being damaged by sand extraction, adding to calls for limits on sand usage. (2019)
More of them have happened than most people think (2019)
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understandi... (2019)
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)
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)
Dr. Larry Brand has spent a professional lifetime analyzing South Florida waters, researching a loosely related group of ancient organisms lumped a... (2019)
Maps of drainage basins of the world in great detail and gorgeous colors created by 33-year-old Hungarian cartographer Robert Szucs. (2019)
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)
The Deep Tunnel was supposed to provide “a total solution to the flood problem.” It hasn’t. (2019)
Can engineering save Louisiana’s coastline? (2018)
How much plastic is your washing machine sending out to sea? (2018)
An ambitious project plans to use seawater and solar power for agriculture. But is it technically feasible? (2018)
When people think about sustainable development goals, they often envision arid developing countries or communities struggling in the wake of a nat... (2018)
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)
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)
One Missouri town’s levee saga captures what's wrong with America's approach to controlling rivers. (2018)
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)
A chemical reaction he suggested can now be done, and it makes a great membrane... (2018)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
An overview of seawater desalination: removing salt to make drinkable water from the ocean (2023)
Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan and water from the Nile: Why This Circle Could Spark Africa’s Biggest War (2023)
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)
Egypt plans to green its desert Egypt is growing at two million people a year. Urban infrastructures can'... (2023)
The Simple Genius of New York City’s Water Supply System (2022)
How Libya Built Brand-New Rivers Across the Sahara (2022)
How 4.5 Million People Nearly Ran Out of Water (2022)
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)
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)
Overview of the Boyce Hydro System and What we know so far. LINKS: Drone Footage (2020)
Insider 5.63M subscribers Every year Venice, Italy, experiences seasonal flooding, which is known as acqua alta. The video dives into why Veni... (2020)
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)
Sugar: bad for you and bad for our waterways. (2018)
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)
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)
The Official 700 Club Published on Sep 3, 2013 Gordon Robertson looks at Israel's remarkable agricultural innovation, with special focus on the... (2018)
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)
"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)
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)
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)
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)