Readers of Circle of Blue know well that industrial agriculture is the largest source of water pollution in the United States. Fertilizer draining from farmland and manure pouring out of factory ...

By Gary Wilson In 2024 when Donald Trump as a presidential candidate proposed piping water from British Columbia, Canada to California, his statement was largely dismissed as campaign rhetoric. Once ...

India’s response to water challenges in the next months and years will affect generations. Delhi is thirsty, even parched. As the 3rd largest population center in the world, its 25 million people need ...

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Circle of Blue is more than one of the world’s premier water newsrooms that provides policymakers, business leaders, and everyday citizens with an authoritative, independent, and world-renowned source ...

The brutal Australian drought has emerged as “The Biggest Dry.” This is no mere statement of hyperbole, scientists tell us. It’s what happens when a nation purposefully designed to use an enormous ...

2010-2019 water rates data from 30 major U.S. cities. The interactive graphs show average monthly residential water prices for three levels of consumption and the annual percent change Circle of ...

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, ...

Overview: Republicans aim to cut National Science Foundation grants linked to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), threatening key environmental research. Critical climate and water research is at ...

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 ...

Agriculture consumes more water than any other use. As food production increases to feed 9 billion people by 2050, the links between water and food only grow stronger.