• 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​

• 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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