Compare and contrast: Why Didn’t L.A. Firefighters Have Access to More Water? Newsom Calls For Investigation
TIME “While water supplies from local fire hydrants are not designed to extinguish fires over large areas, losing supplies from fire hydrants likely impaired the effort to protect some homes […]
Compare and contrast: As Drought Shrivels Hydro, This African Nation Pivots to Solar
Yale Environment 360 An unprecedented drought has lowered reservoirs in hydropower-dependent Zambia, leading to economically crippling blackouts and spurring a push for solar. With multiple utility-scale arrays now in the […]
Funky water woes in Westlock almost resolved: Mayor
Global News “You can taste kind of like a mouldy taste,” she said, adding it isn’t even that bad at her house. Wade said she already drinks bottle water at […]
Compare and contrast: In a Major Reversal, the World Bank Is Backing Mega Dams
Yale Environment 360 Despite continued opposition, the World Bank has approved the first of five big dam projects expected to get its support in the coming months. Climate change has […]
Compare and contrast: Municipal water systems aren’t designed to fight wildfires, but maybe they should be, experts say
Daily Bulletin Municipal water systems aren’t designed to fight wildfires, but maybe they should be, experts say” Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling for an independent investigation into the ’causes of […]
New year, new power: Ford government can now overrule conservation authorities
The Narwhal As of Jan. 1, the Ontario government has new rules for how and when it can permit development that oversteps the organizations tasked with watershed protection. Click […]
Compare and contrast: Sweden just turned the humble water tower into art
Fast Company Varberg, a coastal city south of Gothenburg, built what may be the world’s most stunning water tower. Cast in stark concrete and perched atop a small hill, the […]
First Nations around Ontario’s Lake Nipigon come together to protect their waters
The Narwhal Six years ago, Rocky Bay First Nation an Indigenous community of more than 1,000 people just north of Lake Superior began to study the health of their food […]
Compare and contrast: California’s fire hydrants are running dry just when the L.A. fires need them most
Fast Company L.A. officials have come under attack for its water management system, but experts say it isn’t the only city to see its public water system stressed as climate […]
Compare and contrast: Rice researchers find dialysis ‘astonishingly effective’ for treating wastewater
EurekAlert! Researchers at Rice University, in collaboration with Guangdong University of Technology, have uncovered an innovative approach to treating high-salinity organic wastewaters streams containing both elevated salt and organic concentrations […]