In a disruptive era, when risks are becoming realities, Circle of Blue reports from the front lines

Jan 28, 2025 · Amidst political and water-related unrest in Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Bank’s confidence in the world’s largest hydropower project comes as a surprise.

Jun 18, 2019 · 2010-2018 water rates data from 30 major U.S. cities. The interactive graphs show average monthly residential water prices for three levels of consumption and the annual percent change.

For more than a century, Californians have argued over how to allocate the state’s water among farmers, industry, cities, and homeowners, and how to reverse longstanding policies that simply take more and more water away from the environment. Only in recent years have efforts been made to try to protect the state’s remaining endangered and threatened aquatic ecosystems and to …

Jan 27, 2025 · The Rundown President Trump issues executive orders on energy production, water supplies, and climate change. Other executive orders target foreign aid, FEMA, and the Paris agreement. In settlement with EPA, California mobile home park operator agrees to fix failing water system. Reclamation publishes a report detailing five options it will analyze for post-2026 Colorado River […]

Dec 18, 2024 · By Evgenia Anastasakos, Circle of Blue A plan by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to limit lead contamination in drinking water would require most water utilities across the nation to replace all lead pipes within ten years. Chicago, which has nearly 400,000 lead service lines, will receive additional time to get the job done, with a 20-year-timeline. The EPA’s revisions to the ...

Jan 26, 2023 · Refresh A Great Lakes News Collaborative series investigating the region’s water pollution challenges. This series explores the Clean Water Act’s shortcomings in the Great Lakes, and how the region can more completely address water pollution in the next 50 years. The collaborative’s four newsrooms — Bridge Michigan, Circle of Blue, Great Lakes Now, and Michigan Radio — work ...

Dec 11, 2024 · Shell-shocked residents of Valencia wondered when rain inundated eastern Spain in October. The turbulent floods, a deadly deluge, killed at least 224 people and laid waste to bridges and roads, buildings and fields.

Dec 16, 2024 · The American public, newly conditioned to the health dangers of a polluted environment, was worried. Media reports documented carcinogens in the lower Mississippi River. The federal government, empowered by recent legislation, sued Reserve Mining Company for dumping asbestos-like fibers into Lake Superior, thereby jeopardizing the water supply for Duluth, Minnesota, and at least four other ...

Jan 7, 2025 · The Great Lakes News Collaborative includes Bridge Michigan, Circle of Blue, Great Lakes Now at Detroit PBS, Michigan Public and The Narwhal who work together to bring audiences news and information about the impact of climate change, pollution, and aging infrastructure on the Great Lakes and drinking water. This independent journalism is supported by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. By ...