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Gaza City Residents’ Water Problems Worsen

Gaza City Residents’ Water Problems Worsen

By Kaamil Ahmed Red-faced and with his hair still wet, Hani Abu Amirah’s grandson sobbed as he shuffled over to where she sat, looking out on the Mediterranean Sea from Gaza’s Shati refugee camp. The boy’s distress stemmed from his decision to go swimming a little earlier that morning, one that incurred his father’s wrath […]

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    5 Ways This Company Misinforms Consumers About Oil Wastewater Use

    5 Ways This Company Misinforms Consumers About Oil Wastewater Use

    The Wonderful Company, maker of Halos mandarins and POM products, continues to give consumers misleading information about their use of oil wastewater to irrigate crops. Last October we reported on the response the company gave to consumer concerns. Fast forward over a year since we launched the campaign to tell the company to stop using […]

    Superbug Risk Rises as Big Pharma Fails to Disclose Antibiotic Waste Leaked From Factories

    Superbug Risk Rises as Big Pharma Fails to Disclose Antibiotic Waste Leaked From Factories

    By Madlen Davies and Sam Loewenberg Many of the world’s leading drug manufacturers may be leaking antibiotics from their factories into the environment, according to a new report from a drug industry watchdog. This risks creating more superbugs. The report surveyed household-name pharmaceutical giants like GSK, Novartis and Roche as well as generic companies which […]

    Governors Weigh in on Water, Climate and the Environment: What We Know So Far

    Governors Weigh in on Water, Climate and the Environment: What We Know So Far

    By Brett Walton State of the State speeches are where governors sketch their legislative priorities and report on the overall health of their dominions. The state of the state is almost always “strong” and water issues are occasionally mentioned. Below are summaries of the governors’ references to water, climate and the environment. This post will […]

    Florida Faces 3 Toxic Crises Triggered by Flooding

    Florida Faces 3 Toxic Crises Triggered by Flooding

    By Dipika Kadaba Ah, Florida—home to famous natural landscapes and amazing wildlife, but also to more than 20 million people and billion-dollar industries. Decades of booming development in Florida—all of it built in the path of Atlantic hurricanes—have brought to a head some toxic problems the state still struggles to solve. Every major flooding event, […]

    Tyson Poultry Pleads Guilty to Clean Water Act Violations, Fish Deaths in Missouri

    Tyson Poultry Pleads Guilty to Clean Water Act Violations, Fish Deaths in Missouri

    Tyson Foods, the nation’s largest chicken producer, has taken “full responsibility” for accidentally releasing an acidic chemical used in chicken feed into the city of Monett, Missouri’s wastewater treatment system that resulted in the deaths of more than 100,000 fish. The poultry giant unit pleaded guilty on Wednesday in federal court in Springfield, Missouri on […]

    Nature Offers Solutions to Water Woes and Flood Risks

    Nature Offers Solutions to Water Woes and Flood Risks

    When the Aztecs founded Tenochtitlán in 1325, they built it on a large island on Lake Texcoco. Its eventual 200,000-plus inhabitants relied on canals, levees, dikes, floating gardens, aqueducts and bridges for defense, transportation, flood control, drinking water and food. After the Spaniards conquered the city in 1521, they drained the lake and built Mexico […]

    7 Reasons We Face a Global Water Crisis

    7 Reasons We Face a Global Water Crisis

    By Leah Schleifer Droughts in Somalia. Water rationing in Rome. Flooding in Jakarta. It doesn’t take a hydrologist to realize that there is a growing global water crisis. Each August, water experts, industry innovators and researchers gather in Stockholm for World Water Week to tackle the planet’s most pressing water issues. What are they up […]