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The desert city of Amman is running out of water. Meanwhile, officials fixate on gleaming visions of growth, perpetuating the fantasy that urban dy... (2023)
Climate change is starting to transform the classic home loan, a fixture of the American experience and financial system that dates back generations. (2020)
As the dangers and costs of climate change rise, policymakers are facing painful choices about how to decide which communities to protect. (2019)
Hundreds of miles of levees in the Midwest have been overwhelmed by the floods, leaving “Swiss cheese” infrastructure and reigniting a flood contro... (2019)
Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn Centennial Park can hold a million gallons of rainwater to help control the city’s increasing floods. (2018)
The $2.5 trillion fashion industry is the second-largest user (pdf) of water globally, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Euro... (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)
Thieves stole roughly 80,000 gallons of water in a region of Australia that’s suffering from one of the worst droughts in the history of the countr... (2019)
A new study out Monday seems to confirm an unpleasant reality: Potentially toxic algae blooms in the world’s freshwater lakes have become more inte... (2019)
As countries in the Middle East, Africa, and elsewhere struggle to find enough freshwater to meet demand, they’re increasingly turned to the ocean.... (2019)
A United Nations report published last week said we have about a decade to get climate change under control, which—let’s be honest—isn’t likely to ... (2018)
For billions, it can mean hours spent collecting water. For almost a million, it means dying from disease. (2025)
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)
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)
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understandi... (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)
Maps of drainage basins of the world in great detail and gorgeous colors created by 33-year-old Hungarian cartographer Robert Szucs. (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)
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)
One Missouri town’s levee saga captures what's wrong with America's approach to controlling rivers. (2018)
A chemical reaction he suggested can now be done, and it makes a great membrane... (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)
Embattled leader of Cape Town warns coastal city will have to shut off taps amid devastating drought (2018)
Sunlight-powered moisture-absorbing technologies are becoming economical (2017)
Coca-Cola Sucks Wells Dry in Chiapas, Forcing Residents to Buy Water. Coca-Cola's water use is causing a health crisis in Chiapas. (2017)
Cities encourage potentially devastating floods by laying down asphalt and pavement. Could this be avoided by making them "spongier" and more absor... (2017)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Sugar: bad for you and bad for our waterways. (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)