Jeff Biggers, The Nation. September 16, 2009. An important announcement from EPA about mountaintop mining may mean there's hope for Appalachia's waterways.
Peter Asmus, AlterNet. July 30, 2009. California is leading the way with new legislation to guarantee clean water for all, but the federal government is far behind.
Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. June 30, 2009. As long as we see rivers as something to be consumed or treated as a dump, we will never be a healthy society.
Adam Federman, Earth Island Journal. June 1, 2009. Texas will receive 81 train cars full of PCB-contaminated sediment from the Hudson River every four to five days for six months.
Joseph Romm, Climate Progress. April 22, 2009. Affection for our planet is misdirected and unrequited. We need to focus on saving ourselves. It's time to dump Earth Day.
Yee Huang, Center for Progressive Reform. April 1, 2009. EPA may help the protection of water by reviving a much-discussed but ill-fated rule to regulate water pollution from non-point sources.
Jeff Biggers, AlterNet. March 23, 2009. The first shot has been fired in the legislative battle to end the devastating practice of mountaintop removal mining in central Appalachia.
Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica. February 27, 2009. The state has done little to study the impacts drilling might have on water supplies and is unprepared to treat the waste water it produces.
Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica. November 20, 2008. One of the greatest threats to our water and our health may come from a process involved in natural gas drilling. But EPA is keeping mum.
Christy Leavitt, AlterNet. October 28, 2008. McCain's actual record on what comes out of our kitchen faucets would leave a bad taste in the mouth of most Americans.
Carl Pope, Huffington Post. September 25, 2008. Even though the pollutant perchlorate has been found to cause health risks, EPA doesn't mind that its in your drinking water.
Environment News ServiceSeptember 23, 2008. Federal support for water infrastructure has plummeted roughly 70 percent over the last two decades, and now places like New York are in trouble.
Mark Clayton, Christian Science Monitor. September 18, 2008. Water and chemicals injected at high pressure can extract more gas and may threaten drinking water in places like New York and Texas.
Kari Lydersen, AlterNet. August 29, 2008. Alaska is one step closer to approving Pebble Mine, which threatens the world's largest salmon fishery and native communities.
Mark Clayton, Christian Science Monitor. May 29, 2008. Increasingly it is being asked: Which countries are water rich, which are water poor, and who should manage water resources?
Brita Belli, E Magazine. May 7, 2008. An initiative to charge diners $1 for tap water and donate it to UNICEF to provide clean drinking water is taking off.
Bart Beeson, North American Congress on Latin America. May 1, 2008. With the most annual rainfall of any region in the world, the water crisis in Latin America is particularly perplexing.
Saul Garlick, Policy Innovations. March 31, 2008. Local populations can offer help in bringing this resource to their communities if given the right tools and opportunities.
Khalil Abdullah, New America Media. March 17, 2008. A group of organizations that implement clean water projects in varying regions of the world have some ideas.
