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Pesticides, Antibiotics, Heavy Metals Tarnish Europe’s Waterways

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June 11, 2019

New chemicals and medicines are being developed, then leaching into waterways, faster than researchers can study them.

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HotSpots H2O: Somalia on the Edge of Famine After Driest Rainy Season In Decades

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June 10, 2019

Somalia’s current rainy season has failed, a situation that the United Nations warns could leave a third of the country’s residents food insecure by July.

With Heavy Spring Rains, Lake Erie Algal Bloom Forecast Gets Worse and Worse

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June 7, 2019

The latest Lake Erie forecast projects a large buildup of harmful cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, this summer.

Two Hurricanes, Two Floods: North Carolina Town Fights To Stay Alive

June 5, 2019

Aging Sewer System Imperils North Carolina Town’s Finances

June 5, 2019

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Pesticides, Antibiotics, Heavy Metals Tarnish Europe’s Waterways

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June 11, 2019

New chemicals and medicines are being developed, then leaching into waterways, faster than researchers can study them.

With Heavy Spring Rains, Lake Erie Algal Bloom Forecast Gets Worse and Worse

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June 7, 2019

The latest Lake Erie forecast projects a large buildup of harmful cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, this summer.

Two Hurricanes, Two Floods: North Carolina Town Fights To Stay Alive

June 5, 2019

Aging Sewer System Imperils North Carolina Town’s Finances

June 5, 2019

The Rural Dilemma: Q&A With Al Leonard, Fair Bluff Town Manager

June 5, 2019

Photo Gallery: Scenes from Fair Bluff

June 5, 2019

Michigan leads nation in PFAS. It will lead cleanups, too, U.S. reps say

May 30, 2019

A report this month found Michigan leads the nation in sites contaminated with toxic chemicals known as PFAS, and the state’s bipartisan delegation in Congress has introduced a flurry of legislation to increase testing.

As rains fall short, Manila trickles into a water crisis

May 29, 2019

As drought grips the Philippines, Manila is becoming the latest big city to struggle to access enough water.

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After Fair Bluff Flooded

Flooded by hurricanes twice in three years, the small town of Fair Bluff, North Carolina, is a poster child for the devastation of powerful, slow-moving storms.
The town’s struggle to recover from those storms reflects demographic, economic, and technological changes that are eroding small communities across rural America.

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After Paradise Burned

The tragic burning of Paradise represents a new chapter in America’s relationship with fire damage. No contemporary town has encountered a water system so extensively contaminated by chemicals released during a fire. Utility leaders and outside experts say that ridding the pipes of benzene and other volatile chemicals may take years. The health of the water system has emerged as the central tension in the town’s recovery.

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Uniting classic journalism and data literacy, Circle of Blue informs global audiences about the growing competition between water, food, and energy in a changing climate.

Daily Summary of Global Water News

Flood defenses in the United Kingdom are preventing $1.4 billion in damages each year, a new study estimates. Overwhelming heat and drought drive families out of rural India. A deluge in southern China earlier this month left 49 people dead, authorities say. Australia’s federal court rules that the government did not properly assess the possible environmental impacts of the Adani mine water pipeline project. Villagers in Nicaragua struggle to cope with chronic drought and occasional flooding. Read More

Weekly Digest of U.S. Water Policy and Trends.

Disputes over energy infrastructure that states rejected because of water pollution concerns is at the center of an EPA memo seeking to limit state authority. President Trump signs a $19.1 billion disaster aid bill. The White House rejects an intelligence analyst’s written statement for a House climate change hearing. Transportation regulators release a report on a barge anchorthat struck Great Lakes oil pipelines, an incident that occurred in April 2018. The Army Corps delays opening a rarely used Mississippi River spillway. EPA and FEMA coordinate on disaster recovery funding. The Commerce Department looks at barriers to supplying “critical minerals.” The Lake Erie algal bloom forecast worsens. And lastly, the Army Corps proposes adding eight species to a national wetland plants inventory. Read More

HotSpots H2O examines regions and populations that are most at risk from water-related unrest and conflict. It reveals the challenges individuals confront — and the solutions they discover — as they face the greatest challenge of the 21st century: water.

HotSpots H2O: Somalia on the Edge of Famine After Driest Rainy Season In Decades

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June 10, 2019

Somalia’s current rainy season has failed, a situation that the United Nations warns could leave a third of the country’s residents food insecure by July.

HotSpots H2O: Islamic State’s Scorched-Earth Tactics Devastate Promising Harvests

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June 3, 2019

Wheat and barley fields across Iraq and Syria are ablaze following attacks by Islamic State militants.

HotSpots H2O: Two Years After Siege, Thousands Still Lack Clean Water in Philippines City

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May 28, 2019

Two years after an Islamic State siege on Marawi, tens of thousands of people still have not returned to their homes in the lakeside city in the southern Philippines.

HotSpots H2O: Lowest Rainfall In Decades Pushes North Korea Toward Famine

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May 20, 2019

The lack of rain is worsening North Korea’s chronic food shortages, and an estimated 10.1 million people, about 40 percent of the population, are facing severe food insecurity.

What’s Up With Water – June 10, 2019

This week’s edition of What’s Up With Water includes stories on:

A North Carolina community that is struggling to recover from repeated floods.
How in Russia, locals of remote northern region fear that a plan to dump trash from Moscow will pollute nearby rivers.
How in Cape Town, South Africa, just a year after the city avoided its ‘Day Zero’ crisis, citizens are again facing dry conditions.
The United Nations, which is warning that in Somalia, one-fifth of the population is struggling to meet minimum food requirements amid drought.
How the booming avocado industry is straining water resources in Chile.
Floodwaters continuing to swamp the Midwest, most recently in central and southeastern Oklahoma, where severe storms struck over the weekend.

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How the world responds to water challenges in the next months and years will have effects for generations.

Delhi is thirsty, even parched. As the 3rd largest population center in the world, its 25 million people need water, and lots of it, to survive. It’s clear that how India responds in the next months and years will have effects for generations. How will it mange the intensifying competition between water, food and energy in a changing climate?

It’s clear that getting enough water day-by-day is foremost on people’s minds. When the challenge is so great and children so thirsty, people often take their water sources into their own hands. Some entrepreneurs bring water by tank pulled by a tractor, and sell at an inflated rate. Others drill their own unsanctioned wells, some even in the middle of the street.

ChokePoint:

The conflicting demand for water, food, and energy is the defining challenge of our century. Global Choke Point, a collaboration between Circle of Blue and the Wilson Center, explores the peril and promise with frontline reporting, data, and policy expertise.

No one is better positioned to deliver groundbreaking knowledge on the critical resource of global water than Circle of Blue.

Ian Bremmer, President, Eurasia Group

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The combining of journalism, science, data, design and convening power is an innovative model that works.

Hon. Jane Harmon, President, Wilson Center

To respond to the world’s greatest, most urgent challenges, we need trusted information, clear context, and solutions-focused dialogue. Circle of Blue cuts through the complexities of global development. Through knowledge and informed action, we can make a better future.

Henrik Skovby, Executive Chairman, Dalberg Group

I am happy that this meeting is taking place, for it represents yet another stage in the joint commitment of various institutions to raising consciousness about the need to protect water as a treasure belonging to everyone, mindful too of its cultural and religious significance.

Pope Francis