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Water Issues
Philadelphia Tackles Stormwater Producers with Fees
Stormwater runoff is a primary cause of water pollution in urban areas, as rain rushes off impervious roofs and parking lots. Philadelphia has the guts to make major stormwater producers pay more; those who build porous ground and roof covers pay less. Of course, it's controversial. Read More...
Lake Mead: Then and Now
Graphic pictures of Lake Mead in August 1985 and 25 years later. Some of it is drought, but much of it is human use, as the American Southwest pretends that the desert can support an increasing population that uses water as if the supply were inexhaustible. Read More...
Farm Runoff? Sewage? These Bacteria Eat It Up.
Bacteria in breweries' wastewater can be used to transform the ammonium in farm runoff into harmless nitrogen gas. Considering that farm runoff is increasingly found to be our major water polluter, this low-energy system, still in early trials, offers big hopes. Read More...
A New Approach to Water Allocation: "Virtual Water"
Allocating water between drier Botswana and water-rich areas of South Africa is leading to a new concept of water allocation: "virtual water." Is this just a convenient fiction or a useful construct? Read More...
When Readers’ Comments are Wiser Than the Writer’s Column
This article wonders why Oklahoma doesn't want to sell its water to Texas. Read the comments that follow the article, and see readers who know enough about the environment to say exactly why there's no "mystery;" just good environmental sense. Read More...
The Water Next Time: Water Wars in the Making
This story in the Times has all the elements of the potential water wars that threaten to break out across the world. Whether it's Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan over the Blue Nile or California, Arizona and Nevada over the Colorado. Read More...
Water Wars: Agriculture vs Hydropower; India vs Pakistan
If you question Pakistan's belligerence against India, look at how India is treating their joint water sources. It's a story that's repeating around the world. Read More...