Dave Dempsey, AlterNet. August 26, 2008. A new compact protecting the Great Lakes is set to pass Congress, but there are a few green critics with serious concerns.
Tom MacMillan, Comment Is Free. August 22, 2008. If we don't make changes quickly it will be our plates, not our rates, that bear the brunt of water shortage.
Jay Walljasper, OnTheCommons.org. August 20, 2008. A gathering of international thinkers, artists, and activists is inspiring a new revolution in the right to water and what belongs to the commons.
Elizabeth Royte, Huffington Post. August 19, 2008. In the U.S., 89.3 percent of tap water is deemed safe, but what if you're one of the 29 million people whose water missed the mark?
Joseph Romm, Climate Progress. August 18, 2008. McCain might have just lost Colorado after saying he wanted to renegotiate a 1922 water deal and take water from Colorado and New Mexico.
Kerry Trueman, Huffington Post. August 18, 2008. Fertilizer runoff from industrial agriculture and fossil-fuel use are causing catastrophic "dead zones" in our oceans.
Bob Burnett, Huffington Post. August 14, 2008. By 2020 Glacier National Park will be "Puddles National Park" and the rest of the west won't be much better off. So where's the concern?
Mario Osava, IPS News. August 14, 2008. Often included among "clean" sources of energy, small hydroelectric dams have been constructed without proper consideration of their effects.
Michael B. Farrell, Christian Science Monitor. August 13, 2008. The strangest thing about Orange County's facility that turns wastewater into drinking water, is that there was no public resistance.
Yifat Susskind, AlterNet. August 5, 2008. Across the world, it is women and girls who are responsible for risking their health and often lives to get their households' water.
AlterNet Staff, AlterNet. August 5, 2008. Here are two stories that show the huge impacts of bottled water and the pressure the industry is receiving lately from consumers and officials.
Rafael D. Frankel, Christian Science Monitor. July 31, 2008. Severe water contamination in the Gaza Strip is worsened by Israeli blockades, say many Palestinians.
Scott Thill, AlterNet. July 18, 2008. In California there were 8,000 lightning strikes in one event, and that was months before fire season. There is more of that in store across the West.
Sarah Bates, Science Progress. July 16, 2008. While some are proposing a new national water commission, others have a different idea that is less talk and more action.
Graham Hill, Huffington Post. July 15, 2008. The toilet is the biggest water culprit in the home -- gulping down nearly one third of your total water consumption.
Doug George, Christian Science Monitor. July 15, 2008. Scientists may soon conclude that dam operations are risking the cultural heritage of the Grand Canyon.
Eoin O'Carroll, Christian Science Monitor. July 14, 2008. A federal jury found that local authorities were denying a black community public water service because of their race.
