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Water

  • 8/14/22: "Colorado River at drought tipping point" Axios
  • 6/28/222: "Water Works: USC Dornsife scholars make a splash as they address challenges — from local to global — centered around water.
  • 3/29/22: "Half of U.S. Waterways Too Dirty to Swim, Fish, or Drink From, Report Finds" 
  • 1/25/22: "The Supreme Court takes on the nation's bedrock environmental laws" (Clean Water Act) WaPo
  • 12/11/21: LAT: "State tells San Joaquin Valley agencies that groundwater plans are flawed" 
  • 12/6/21: "Column: Has Biden moved to finally kill California’s most farcical water project?  LAT​
  • 8/27/21: "40 Million People Rely on the Colorado River. It’s Drying Up Fast" NYT
  • 8/17/21: "Colorado River Water Shortage Declared for First Time in History" 
  • 7/24/21: "Without Enough Water To Go Around, Farmers In California Are Exhausting Aquifers" NPR
  • 6/28/21: "New Water Wars Are Coming to the American West" Bloomberg
  • 4/19/21: "Water Wars Are Heating Up Between States"
  • 3/31/21: "We sampled tap water across the US – and found arsenic, lead and toxic chemicals" Guardian report
  • 3/22/21: "Government Forecast Finds Nearly Two-Thirds of U.S. Experiencing Drought" 
  • 11/17/20: Historic deal revives plan for largest US dam demolition
  • 10/4/20: Explainer: Who Regulates U.S. Drinking Water, and How?
  • Protection for South Florida’s Water Supply Is Crumbling 5/4/20
  • Heal the Bay Annual LA River Report: "River Report Card: How Safe Is The Freshwater In Los Angeles?" 
  • GUEST COMMENTARY: CALIFORNIA ALMONDS AND SALMON – CONTRASTS IN SUSTAINABILITY 7/15/20
  • We May Finally Be Able to Destroy a Dreaded ‘Forever Chemical’ in Our Drinking Water
  • Colorado River flow shrinks from climate crisis 2/20/20
  • Virtually All Major US Drinking Water Sources Likely Contaminated With PFAS  1/28/20
  • Trump’s plans to strip clean water protections leave New Mexico fearing pollution and health risks 
  • ​The Fight to Stop Nestlé From Taking America's Water to Sell in Plastic Bottles 10/19/19
  • 8/6/19: "Mapping the strain on our water, Pockets in several U.S. states — and across the globe — are draining their limited water supplies" WaPo
  • ​The words of water - Why environmentalists are losing the water wars
  • The Great Flood of 2019: A Complete Picture of a Slow-Motion Disaster (interactive NYT 9/11/19)​
  • The EPA's roll back of the Clean Water Act could impact drinking water for millions of Americans 9/13/19
  • Beyond Flint- Poor Blacks, Latinos Endure Oversized Burden 1/15/2016)
  • The Water Risk Atlas 8/4/19 
  • A Quarter of Humanity is facing a water crisis NYT 8/4/19
  • Extreme water stress affects a quarter of the world 8/5/19
  • Toxic Stew Stirred up by disasters NYT 7/15/19
  • No need to dam free flowing rivers to meet sustainability goals
  • Over One Tenth of the Global Population Could lack drinking water by 2030
  • Who keeps buying California's scarce water? Saudi Arabia 
  • The Colorado River NYT 1/15/14
  • California Water Use 8/2015
  • California and the Human Right to Water AB-685
  • California and the Human Right to Water: online map for local water quality.
  • New desalination method could get industry and the environment out of a very salty pickle
  • Orange County: "Toilet to Tap" OC Register 8/2015​
  • 7/27/22: "Delta tunnel: Salmon at risk from massive water project, state report says" CalMatters
  • 7/11/22: "A new NYC Met exhibit explores the complicated role water plays for indigenous groups" NPR
  • 12/3/21: "A Slow-Motion Climate Disaster: The Spread of Barren Land" Brazil.  NYT
  • 7/21/21:'California moves to cut off water to thousands of farmers, as drought dries up rivers" SacBee
  • ​6/1/21: "California's snowpack is 0% of June 1 average. Here's what that means." SFGate
  • 3/2/21:"Rivers and lakes are the most degraded ecosystems in the world. Can we save them?" NatlGeo
  • 1/12/21: "Michigan plans to charge ex-Gov. Snyder in Flint water probe"
  • 1/3/21: One in three US rivers have changed color since 1984. Here's what this means
  • 11/9/20: Farmers Are Depleting the Ogallala Aquifer Because the Government Pays Them to Do So 
  • 7/28/20: "‘Man cannot win against nature’: Amid catastrophic floods, China’s dams come into question"
  • 7/15/20: "GUEST COMMENTARY: CALIFORNIA ALMONDS AND SALMON – CONTRASTS IN SUSTAINABILITY"
  • 7/2/20: "US rivers and lakes are shrinking for a surprising reason: cows"
  • Climate change has stolen more than a billion tons of water from the West
  • The Coming Collapse of World Water 10/23/19
  • Global Groundwater Is Threatened by Unsustainable Practices Amid Climate Crisis
  • The Cost of Desalination in Chile is too high
  • 1.9 billion people at risk from mountain water shortages
  • The world's supply of fresh water is in trouble as mountain ice vanishes
  • Trump EPA won't limit 2 toxic chemicals in drinking water
  • The Poisoning of Flint
  • UCLA study presents L.A. with a path to independence from imported water
  • USC Study of Los Angeles Water
  • Stormwater in LA is a major resource  NYT 2/2016
  • Using up the Ogallala Aquifer ​
  • You might be drinking water from the last Ice Age
  • How Cape Town was saved from running out of water
  • Capetown, South Africa in Water Crisis
  • Cashing in on the Water Crisis
  • How the US government hid the impacts of fracking on drinking water
  • Seawater Desalination? 
  • 36 Eye opening Facts Bout Water
  • Drinking Water Report
  • Nestlé and the Guarani Aquifer
  • Global Groundwater Crisis
  • Four Ways to Look at Standing Rock: an indigenous perspective
  • Arsenic threatens the water supply of 750 million people
  • Timber Company cuts CA town water
  • ​Donald Trump Knows How to Fix the Drought
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