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.
Julio Godoy, IPS News. June 30, 2008. Paris is the latest city to take action to put water back into public hands, and they may be part of a new trend.
Richard Girard, Polaris Institute. June 26, 2008. The PET plastic bottles used for bottled water can all be traced back the world's biggest oil giants.
Richard Mertens, Christian Science Monitor. June 25, 2008. Climate change has recently cast a new and disturbing uncertainty over flood-management questions.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. June 24, 2008. A new resolution from leading U.S. mayors shows that more cities may be ditching the bottled stuff in favor of tap.
Rick Perlstein, Blog for Our Future. June 23, 2008. The colossal mismanagement of water in Georgia has produced an urban crisis with no clear solution other than a return to smart government.
Riki Ott, Chelsea Green Publishing. June 18, 2008. Author Riki Ott tells the extraordinary tale of the people who took on the world's richest oil companies to protect Prince William Sound.
Sarah Bates, Science Progress. June 17, 2008. The failure to connect land-use and water planning may have far-reaching and increasingly unacceptable consequences.
Georgianne Nienaber, Huffington Post. June 17, 2008. What or who is behind a water management policy in the United States that allowed our infrastructure to crumble?
Max Keiser, Huffington Post. June 16, 2008. These two diminishing resources have a common cause for their disappearance: a broken neo-classic capitalist system.
Alice Gordon, Atlanta Progressive News. June 10, 2008. A group of Native Americans and others have completed a journey to give thanks to the river in water-starved Georgia.
Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360. June 9, 2008. In the discussion of the global food emergency, one underlying factor is barely mentioned: The world is running out of freshwater.
