Alan Snitow, Deborah Kaufman, Tomdispatch.com. October 6, 2008. Neglect of public infrastructure has private companies swooping in to buy public systems, like water, with grave consequences.
Scott Thill, AlterNet. October 4, 2008. L.A. has two options: Pray for rain, or suck off Northern California's supply. Guess which one it's going to try first?
Thomas Kostigen, Huffington Post. October 3, 2008. We are facing crises of freshwater, food, deforestation, and ocean health. We need leadership in the protection of all our natural resources.
William E. Marks, AlterNet. October 2, 2008. Your small bottle of Fiji water may not cost much to you, but it does for the people of Fiji and its environment.
Julie Chowdhury, The Wip. October 1, 2008. It is our era's greatest scandal that 1.6 million children die of preventable illness each year. We can fix that.
Dave Dempsey, AlterNet. October 1, 2008. Past politicians have sough to protect our most important source of water. So far, their words have been empty promises.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. September 27, 2008. The Sundance hit "FLOW: For Love of Water" is taking the country by storm and waking people up to our water crisis.
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.
Gidon Bromberg, Yale Environment 360. September 24, 2008. Huge withdrawals for irrigation, rapid population growth, and a paralyzing regional conflict have drained nearly all the water from this fabled river.
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.
EurodadSeptember 22, 2008. Despite admitting that corporations are screwing up water services, the World Bank still thinks privatization is a "real business opportunity."
Elizabeth Royte, AlterNet. September 20, 2008. More and more cities are implementing "toilet to tap" programs as the answer to our water crisis. But is it the best and safest option?
Jon Keesecker, AlterNet. September 9, 2008. In one U.S. city, a mayor is putting the city's water systems up for sale in exchange for money for eduction.
Carl Pope, Huffington Post. September 8, 2008. Three years after Katrina and a week since Gustav, we are in need of a sobering reminder of some basic truths.
Rachel Olivieri, AlterNet. September 4, 2008. California has spared no expense to taxpayers or natural ecosystems to become the most hydrologically altered landmass on the planet.
Andy Posner, Huffington Post. September 3, 2008. We already know the many reasons not to drink bottled water, but fossil fuels are really bottled energy.
veg-head, off-grid. September 3, 2008. Rainwater harvesting is a well-known practice in the developing world, but it is also now gaining traction in the U.S.
AlterNet Staff, AlterNet AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. September 3, 2008. First Saddam-era deal approved; UNICEF blasts Iraqi government for not investing in drinking water.
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?
