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Water/Drought

¿Por qué permiten que las compañías petroleras de California, asolada por la sequía, usen agua dulce?

By Liza Gross

The Colorado River flows through fields of crops in Southern California. New water conservation plans from the Bureau of Reclamation could use money from the Inflation Reduction act to pay farmers and ranchers to temporarily pause some water use, an effort to boost levels in the nation's largest reservoirs. Credit: Ted Wood/The Water Desk

Feds Will Spend Billions to Boost Drought-Stricken Colorado River System

By Alex Hager, KUNC

On the last day of summer, fall colors contrast with the burnt landscape of the Cameron Peak Fire on Sept. 21, 2021 in Larimer County, Colorado. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Western Forests, Snowpack and Wildfires Appear Trapped in a Vicious Climate Cycle

By Bob Berwyn

Marty Plaskett, a hay farmer in Diamond Valley, Nevada, stands near one of his irrigation pivots that’s watering his alfalfa field on Sept. 2, 2022. Credit: Kaleb Roedel

A Plan To Share the Pain of Water Scarcity Divides Farmers in This Rural Nevada Community

By Kaleb Roedel, Mountain West News Bureau

View along the Patapsco River in downtown Baltimore on April 9, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland. Credit: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images

Maryland Gets $144 Million in Federal Funds to Rehabilitate Aging Water Infrastructure

By Aman Azhar

Wastewater from oil operations is often dumped into unlined pits, a practice that has contaminated protected groundwater in Kern County and other oil-producing areas in California. Credit: Liza Gross

Drought-Wracked California Allows Oil Companies to Use High-Quality Water. But Regulators’ Error-Strewn Records Make Accurate Accounting Nearly Impossible

By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous

City and State Officials Continue Searching for the Cause of Last Week’s E. Coli Contamination of Baltimore’s Water

By Aman Azhar

Jamiya Williams, left, watches as her fiance, Terrence Carter, right, pours bleach into the water before washing dishes in response to the water crisis on Sept. 1, 2022 in Jackson, Mississippi. The water pressure increased in their apartment on Wednesday however the water is still unsafe to drink. Jackson has been experiencing days without reliable water service after river flooding caused the main treatment facility to fail. Credit: Brad Vest/Getty Images

Q&A: How White Flight and Environmental Injustice Led to the Jackson, Mississippi Water Crisis

By James Bruggers

Drifting Toward Disaster: the (Second) Rio Grande

By Dylan Baddour

An oil pumpjack operates in the Permian Basin oil field in Odessa, Texas. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Texas Study Finds ‘Massive Amount’ of Toxic Wastewater With Few Options for Reuse

By Dylan Baddour

A bridge crosses the dry bed of Falcon Lake in Zapata, Texas, 60 miles south of Laredo, pictured on Aug. 16, 2022. Credit: Dylan Baddour

Laredo Confronts Drought and Water Shortage Without a Wealth of Options

By Dylan Baddour

The Hemenway boat ramp at the marina on Lake Mead, a reservoir on the Colorado River that has dropped significantly. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

State Tensions Rise As Water Cuts Deepen On The Colorado River

By Aydali Campa

Stagnant pools filled the dry bed of the Rio Grande when it stopped flowing for several weeks this May in the Chihuahua Desert. Credit: Dylan Baddour

Mexican Drought Spurs a South Texas Water Crisis

By Dylan Baddour

Christine Gemperle shells an almond freshly picked from a tree in her grove in Ceres. Credit: Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters

Out in the Fields, Contemplating Humanity and a Parched Almond Farm

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Trucks buried in mud and debris after heavy rains in late July 2022 caused flooding in Kentucky. Credit: Wang Changzheng/Xinhua via Getty Images.

Strip Mining Worsened the Severity of Deadly Kentucky Floods, Say Former Mining Regulators. They Are Calling for an Investigation

By James Bruggers

A young girl waits in line for not potable water delivered by a tanker truck in Colonia Mirador de Garcia, Mexico, in July 2022. Residents there have been without running water for days. Credit: Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.

Drought Emergency in Mexico Rekindles Demand for Water Law Reform

By Myriam Vidal Valero

A forest is incinerated by the Oak Fire near Midpines, northeast of Mariposa, California, on July 23, 2022. - The California wildfire ripped through thousands of acres on July 23 after being sparked a day earlier, as millions of Americans sweltered through scorching heat with already record-setting temperatures due to climb. Credit: David McNew / AFP via Getty Images

Scientists Say It’s ‘Fatally Foolish’ To Not Study Catastrophic Climate Outcomes

By Bob Berwyn

Dead pine trees, made vulnerable to pine bark beetles by prolonged drought, are seen on the Navajo Nation on July 4, 2021 south of Tuba City, Arizona. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images)

Lack of Loggers Is Hobbling Arizona Forest-Thinning Projects That Could Have Slowed This Year’s Devastating Wildfires

By Andrew Onodera

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