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The Stream, July 16: Australia Coal Mine Prompts Public Concern Over Water
The Global Rundown President Obama is expected to veto a U.S. House of Representatives bill that addresses the drought in the western United States . In Australia, a Chinese-run coal mine raises...
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One Way to Ease California Drought: Recycle Wastewater For Irrigation
Del Puerto Water District to buy a third of its water supply from Modesto and Turlock treatment plants. Photo © Keith Schneider / Circle of Blue The Delta-Mendota Canal transports water to cities and...
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The Stream, September 15: California Snowpack Was Lowest in 500 Years
The Global Rundown Scientists found that the snowpack in California this year was the lowest in half a millennium. Australia’s Senate voted to cap environmental water buybacks in the Murray Darling...
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Infographic: America’s Septic Systems
Nearly one-fifth of U.S. households are not connected to a public sewer. More than 21 million households in the United States use septic systems — not a public sewer — to trap and filter their toilet...
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The Stream, October 26: El Nino Drought Brings Hunger to Ethiopia
The Global Rundown A drought in Ethiopia is putting millions of people at risk of hunger, according to aid organizations, while extreme rainfall over the weekend triggered flash floods in Texas. The...
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The Stream, November 12: El Nino One of Three Strongest On Record
The Global Rundown El Nino is now one of the three strongest on record after water temperatures in areas of the Pacific Ocean reached their highest level in six months. The weather phenomenon is...
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The Stream, November 20: European Commission Targets Greece Over Wastewater
The Global Rundown The European Union’s executive body is pursuing fines against Greece for the country’s failure to address wastewater treatment problems. Poor conditions in a South Sudan refugee...
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The Stream, December 11: UK Urges More Water Trading Between Utilities
The Global Rundown The agency that regulates water utilities in the United Kingdom is asking water companies to consider more water trading to improve efficiency. Jamaica’s water infrastructure is...
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America’s Septic System Failures Can Be Fixed
Solutions require new thinking about wastewater treatment Photo courtesy of Shutterstock / TU Studio Basic septic systems are no more than a tank to trap solid waste and perforated piping that allows...
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Durban Water and Sanitation For Poor Sets Global Standard
South African city’s water experimentation and innovation serves 1 million residents. Photo © Keith Schneider / Circle of Blue City water authorities have supplied tens of thousands of people living in...
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Report: U.S. EPA Has Chance to Vastly Reduce Water Pollution from Power Plants
EPA proposes tougher federal wastewater guidelines, while electricity generation turns from coal to gas. Photo courtesy of Brent Moore via Flickr Creative Commons A 2008 coal-ash pond failure at the...
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U.S. Sewer Costs Increase 5.5 Percent in 2013, Industry Survey Reveals
Why? Old pipes, clean water regulations, and years of inadequate investment. © Brett Walton / Circle of Blue Workers walk through the mechanical room in the Brightwater sewage treatment plant in King...
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Orange County Recycled Water System Shows Importance of Collaboration
From Southern California, a model of success for water’s future. Photo © Brett Walton / Circle of Blue Denis Bilodeau, a director of the Orange County Water District, points to the reverse osmosis...
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Price of Water 2015: Up 6 Percent in 30 Major U.S. Cities; 41 Percent Rise...
As urban water use declines, utilities change business models. Graphic © Kaye LaFond / Circle of Blue Water, sewer, and stormwater prices for 30 major U.S. cities in 2015. Click for a high-resolution...
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Amid California Drought, Oil Industry Wastewater Attracts New Scrutiny
State and federal authorities move to tame use of aquifers as oil field dumps. Photo © J. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue Kern County is the center of California’s oil industry. The industry’s wastewater...
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Infographic: Wastewater in California’s Oil Fields
The oil industry’s relationship to water is governed by a surprising ratio. The main product, by volume, from California’s oil fields is not oil — it’s water. For every barrel of oil that is pumped...
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Biggest Lakes in the World Under Pressure From Human and Environmental Threats
Lake Urmia and Lake Baikal signal the toll from water diversions and pollution. Photo courtesy NASA via Flickr Creative Commons Lake Urmia, a vast salt lake in Iran, is shrinking dramatically due to...
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California Oil Industry’s Wastewater Saga Adds New Twist
A lawsuit, an official’s resignation, and failed legislative proposals marked the beginning of June. Photo © J. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue Tanks that hold processing water dot the landscape in Kern...
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Oakland’s Water Treatment Plant Generates Its Own Energy and Then Some
Plant is at the center of a big move to also solve city’s solid waste problem. Photo © Keith Schneider / Circle of Blue The East Bay Municipal Utility District wastewater treatment plant, a formidable...
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One Way to Ease California Drought: Recycle Wastewater For Irrigation
Del Puerto Water District to buy a third of its water supply from Modesto and Turlock treatment plants. Photo © Keith Schneider / Circle of Blue The Delta-Mendota Canal transports water to cities and...
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