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Water/Drought

Elida Castillo outside Exxon’s new plastics plant, eight miles from her family home in San Patricio County. Credit: Dylan Baddour

Corpus Christi Sold Its Water to Exxon, Gambling on Desalination. So Far, It’s Losing the Bet

By Dylan Baddour

A Mono Lake sunset in 2019. Credit: Paul Reiffer

How Decades of Hard-Earned Protections and Restoration Reversed the Collapse of California’s Treasured Mono Lake

By Bob Berwyn

Activists attend a rally to call for protection of the Clean Water Act outside of the U.S. Supreme Court as it begins a new term on Monday, October 3, 2022. The court was hearing arguments in the case of Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

The Fate of Protected Wetlands Are At Stake in the Supreme Court’s First Case of the Term

By Aman Azhar

A sign advocating water conservation in San Anselmo, California, is posted in a field of dry grass in April 2021. That summer, Gov. Gavin Newsom asked the state's residents to voluntarily cut water use by 15 percent. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images.

Amid Punishing Drought, California Is Set to Adopt Rules to Reduce Water Leaks. The Process has Lagged

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

An aerial view shows the shores and the dam of the reservoir of the Saint-Peyres in Angles, southwestern France, on August 27, 2022. According to information collected by the observatory managed by the European Commission, the European continent has experienced a historic drought, the worst in nearly 500 years. The Global Drought Observatory (GDO) published a damning report on the current aridity in Europe on August 23, 2022. Credit: Lionel Bonaventure / AFP via Getty Images

Study Finds Global Warming Fingerprint on 2022’s Northern Hemisphere Megadrought

By Bob Berwyn

Richard Gaona walks through his dry, empty cotton field. Credit: Christian Roper

Beset by Drought, a West Texas Farmer Loses His Cotton Crop and Fears a Hotter and Drier Future State Water Planners Aren’t Considering

By Autumn Jones

¿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 pulls oil from the Permian Basin oil field on March 14, 2022 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

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