Circle of Blue | Water Reporting, Data & Convening
网页Global Choke Point, a collaboration between Circle of Blue and the Wilson Center, explores the peril and promise with frontline reporting, data, and policy expertise. Our intense focus on water and its relationships to food, energy, & health has created a new model of front-line reporting, data collection, and convening.
Water Pricing - Circle of Blue
网页2019年6月18日 · Circle of Blue’s annual survey of water rates in 30 U.S. cities found the slowest rate of increase since the survey began in 2010. Reporter Brett Walton discusses financial trends that affect water bills for tens of millions of U.S. households. Circle of Blue. Speaking Of Water – The Price of Water 2019 – Brett Walton. 1.8K.
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网页Circle of Blue unites classic journalism, data literacy and transformative connectivity. Its visionary work across the Great Lakes, U.S., China, Australia, Mexico, India and the Middle East earned the Rockefeller Centennial Innovation Award. Circle of Blue meets the demand for information and collaboration in the challenge of the century: water.
Water Scarcity in India - Circle of Blue
网页2018年12月4日 · The country that pumps more groundwater than any other has reached a water supply and food safety reckoning that threatens to upend political and economic stability, and long-term public health. In this special report, building on years of on-the-ground coverage, Circle of Blue reveals how a nation of …
Great Lakes News Collaborative - Circle of Blue
网页The Great Lakes News Collaborative consists of Circle of Blue, Bridge Michigan, Great Lakes Now at Detroit Public Television, and Michigan Radio, and is funded by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. The Collaborative works together to bring audiences news and information about the impact of climate change, pollution, and aging infrastructure ...
Drought in the American West - Circle of Blue
网页2022年8月30日 · Drought is upon the American West — with major implications for human health, biodiversity, agriculture, food security, supply chains, cities, land use, and the most very basic of human rights.. This is a story now only worsened by a climate emergency, which has brought higher temperatures, more extreme conditions, and heightened risks.. Fires, droughts, power outages, competition over water ...
Flint Water Crisis - Circle of Blue
网页Flint Water Crisis - Circle of Blue. In April 2014, an ill-fated decision to switch water sources triggered a series of governance and infrastructure failures that contaminated drinking water in Flint, Michigan’s seventh largest city, with high levels of lead. For residents of Flint, whose concerns about water quality went unaddressed for ...
HotSpots H2O: Climate Change, Pandemic, Violence Are Volatile …
网页2020年8月10日 · Furthermore, drought as a result of climate change has shrunk Lake Chad by 90 percent since 1960. Though lake levels stabilized in the last two decades, the people of the region still endure a lack of drinking water, proper sanitation and hygiene. In the country as a whole, these deficiencies result in an estimated 19,000 annual deaths.
China, Tibet, and the Strategic Power of Water - Circle of Blue
网页2008年5月8日 · China among driest nations With more than a quarter of its land classified as desert, China is one of the planet’s most arid regions. Beijing is besieged each spring by raging dust storms born in Inner Mongolia, where hundreds of square miles of grasslands are turning to desert each year.In other parts of the nation, say diplomats and economic development specialists, Chinese rivers are ...
Explainer: Who regulates U.S. drinking water, and how?
网页2020年9月30日 · The act authorized the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the first time to set national standards for contaminants in drinking water. The EPA has since developed standards for 91 contaminants, a medley of undesirable intruders that range from arsenic and nitrate to lead, copper and volatile organic chemicals like benzene.