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An aerial view of homes in one of the many cities in Southern California where residents will be limited to one day per week of outdoor watering on May 6, 2022 in Agoura Hills, California. A water shortage emergency was declared in Southern California with water restrictions for 6 million residents amid drought conditions. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Why Your Swimming Pool May Be Worse for Urban Water Scarcity Than Climate Change

By Kristoffer Tigue
In Mammoth Lakes, California, snow covers roofs next to snowbanks in March piled up from new and past storms in the Sierra Nevada mountains, in the wake of an atmospheric river event. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images.

California Snowpack May Hold Record Amount of Water, With Significant Flooding Possible

By Emma Foehringer Merchant
In an aerial view, urban sprawl spreads across the desert in Henderson, Nevada on July 1, 2021. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Las Vegas Is Counting on Public Lands to Power its Growth. Is it a Good Idea?

By Wyatt Myskow
Australian water scarcity activist Mina Guli completes her 200th marathon outside UN headquarters, ahead the UN Water Conference, on March 22, 2023, in New York City. Credit: Leonardo Munoz/AFP via Getty Images.

At the UN Water Conference, Running to Keep Up with an Ambitious 2030 Goal for Universal Water Rights

By Delaney Dryfoos

Maryland, Virginia Race to Save Dwindling Commercial Fisheries in the Chesapeake Bay

By Aman Azhar
Ed Puckett helps operate Toyah's water treatment plant on a volunteer basis. During a tour of the plant in early February, he maintained that the water is safe to drink. Credit: Mitch Borden/Marfa Public Radio

How State Regulators Allowed a Fading West Texas Town to Go Over Four Years Without Safe Drinking Water

By Martha Pskowski
An aerial view of landslide damage in La Cañada Flintridge, California on Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

California, Battered by Atmospheric Rivers, Faces a Big Melt This Spring

By Bob Berwyn
John Hornewer climbs down the ladder of his tanker as he fills it up to haul water from Apache Junction to Rio Verde Foothills, Arizona, on Jan. 7, 2023. Credit: Getty Images

After Cutting Off Water to a Neighboring Community, Scottsdale Proposes a Solution

By Wyatt Myskow
Cattle stand in their pasture in rural Lamadera, New Mexico. Credit: Robert Alexander/Getty Images

Amid Drought, Wealthy Homeowners in New Mexico are Getting a Tax Break to Water Their Lawns

By Wyatt Myskow
Eric Balken, executive director of Glen Canyon Institute, walks along a sandbar once submerged by Lake Powell. As the reservoir drops to record lows, areas that were underwater for decades have begun to emerge. Credit: Alex Hager

Lake Powell Drops to a New Record Low as Feds Scramble to Prop it Up

By Alex Hager, KUNC
A grove of tufa towers along the south shore of Mono Lake, California, where long-term drought, global warming and water diversions threaten an ancient ecosystem. Photo credit: Bob Berwyn

Mono Lake Tribe Seeks to Assert Its Water Rights in Call For Emergency Halt of Water Diversions to Los Angeles

By Bob Berwyn
Nick Dornak, the president of the nonprofit group Friends of the Brazos River canoes the John Graves Scenic Riverway during a photo shoot with his 11-year-old daughter Emery. His father-in-law, Ed Lowe founded Friends of the Brazos and led the years long fight for legislation to protect this section of the river from industrial polluters. Credit: Meridith Kohut for The Texas Observer

Drifting Toward Disaster: Breaking the Brazos

By Kathryn Jones, Texas Observer
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is testing out a new technology, inside this trailer, which could destroy harmful PFAS chemicals that have been removed from groundwater. Credit: Shari L. Gross, Star Tribune

Destroying ‘Forever Chemicals’ is a Technological Race that Could Become a Multibillion-dollar Industry

By Chloe Johnson, Star Tribune
Coal ash pond D at Possum Point Power Station in Dumfries, Virginia on June 26, 2015. Credit: Kate Patterson for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Coal Ash Along the Shores of the Great Lakes Threatens Water Quality as Residents Rally for Change

By Grace van Deelen
A view of the Colorado River from the Navajo Bridge in Marble Canyon, Arizona on Aug. 31, 2022. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

States Have Proposals, But No Consensus, On Curbing Water Shortages In Colorado River Basin

By Wyatt Myskow

Texas Oilfield Waste Company Contributed $53,750 to Regulators Overseeing a Controversial Permit Application

By Martha Pskowski
Residents work to push back wet mud that trapped cars and invaded some houses on Jan. 11, 2023 in Piru, east of Fillmore, California. A series of powerful storms pounded California in striking contrast to the past three years of severe to extreme drought experienced by most of the state. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Confronting California’s Water Crisis

By Liza Gross
The Baytown Exxon gas refinery produces oil in Baytown, Texas. Credit: Benjamin Lowy/Reportage by Getty Images

Outdated EPA Standards Allow Oil Refineries to Pollute Waterways

By Dylan Baddour, Martha Pskowski

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