Yasha Levine, AlterNet. November 26, 2009. Thanks to AIG, some of the poorest residents of rural Kentucky learned you can always be made poorer by corporate villains.
Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. November 19, 2009. After years of claiming that they needed no public support to build this plant, this claim has finally been proven false.
Yasha Levine, AlterNet. November 19, 2009. A group of water oligarchs engineered a disastrous privatization scheme to make a fortune out of California's most precious natural resource.
Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. November 18, 2009. Despite the happy face being put on by some of the bill's supporters, including Governor Schwarzenegger, I doubt anyone is truly happy with the end result.
Lori Pottinger, Huffington Post. November 16, 2009. Thanks to grassroots advocacy and new legislation, important ecosystems across the globe will be guarded from harmful damming projects.
Stan Cox, AlterNet. November 5, 2009. Natural gas is "clean" only in contrast to coal -- just as a bacon cheeseburger can only be regarded as healthful compared with a double bacon cheeseburger.
Peter Bosshard, Huffington Post. November 5, 2009. After 27 million cubic meters of concrete have been poured, 1.3 million people have been displaced and up to $88 billion have been spent, it is now time to take stock.
Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. November 4, 2009. It is possible to improve the efficiency of water use and such improvements eliminate the need for expensive and environmentally damaging new supply.
Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. November 4, 2009. We must stop pretending that water is free and unlimited, available to anyone who can put a siphon in a river or drill another groundwater well.
Adam Federman, Earth Island Journal. November 3, 2009. The future of this ecologically rich area is now in the hands of oil and gas companies that have leased thousands of acres to drill in the Marcellus Shale.
Dan Bacher, AlterNet. October 30, 2009. Today environmental groups from around California weighed in with their opposition to the dangerous proposed water legislation.
Sabrina Shankman, ProPublica. October 28, 2009. The company's announcement takes many of NYC's concerns off the table, but others, including what will happen with the wastewater from drilling across the state, remain.
Jaymi Heimbuch, TreeHugger. October 28, 2009. This concept design, modestly called the Savior Bud, is one idea to help gather up moisture from a tree's respiratory process and create drinking water.
David DeFranza, Planet Green. October 28, 2009. In an industry that uses disposable products without a second thought, Jackson Browne's efforts to reduce packaged water waste are inspiring.
Environment News ServiceOctober 23, 2009. The population is still growing with many people migrating into the region, but little has been done to increase water storage or reduce consumption.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. October 23, 2009. No federal regulations specifically govern the disposal of power plant discharges into waterways or landfills.
Miller-McCune.comOctober 23, 2009. A globe-trotting geologist uses satellites and other remote-sensing platforms to find water under some of the world's thirstiest places.
Dan Bacher, AlterNet. October 20, 2009. Grassroots community activists are mobilizing against the internationally boycotted corporation that is planning to bottle water in an already parched state.
Melinda Burns, Miller-McCune.com. October 16, 2009. Bone-dry California eases restrictions on greywater use, allowing wastewater from washing machines and bathtubs to spill onto the state's lawns and lemon trees.
Lester R. Brown, Climate Progress. October 14, 2009. The world renown environmentalist writes about his new book and lays out the devastating impacts unrestricted emissions of greenhouse gases will have on food and water.
Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. October 14, 2009. Addressing water problems comes down to three choices: increase the water supply, decrease the water demand per person, or change the number of people.