Scientists Warned of a Salton Sea Disaster. No One Listened.
California’s Salton Sea offers a tableau of dead wildlife, toxic dust, and neglect. It was long in the making.
3M offers $10.3B settlement over PFAS contamination in water systems – now, how do...
PFAS chemicals seemed like a good idea at first. Then tests started detecting PFAS in people’s blood.
Once ‘paradise,’ parched Colorado valley grapples with arsenic in water
Decades of climate change-driven drought, combined with the overpumping of aquifers, is making the valley desperately dry — and appears to be intensifying the levels of heavy metals in drinking water.
How Hudbay’s Santa Rita mining will impact Southern Arizona’s waterways
The proposed Copper World Complex mine is carving roads and berms that will impact wildlife and waterflow.
The Supreme Court just shriveled federal protection for wetlands, leaving many of these valuable...
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that protection of wetlands encompasses only wetlands that adjoin rivers, lakes and other bodies of water.
Utah’s Suicide Pact With the Fossil Fuel Industry
The state’s fixation on oil and gas development threatens the Colorado River watershed.
Fines for breaking US pollution laws can vary widely among states – that may...
The variability in pollution laws nationwide may be caused by the EPA not requiring state enforcement.
Which wetlands should receive federal protection? The Supreme Court revisits a question it has...
A wetland protection case being reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court will determine which bodies of water can be federally regulated.
$500M in new federal funds to give thousands of Coloradans freedom from lead, PFAS...
Coloradans exposed to drinking water tainted by lead or so-called “forever chemicals" will see clean water faster.
Harvesting water in arid lands – Water Buffs Podcast ep. 11 – Brad Lancaster
Brad Lancaster, author and expert on water harvesting, explains how to make the most of rainfall and greywater to stretch local supplies.