Tackling the nation's water crisis requires new approaches and enhanced collaboration strategies. We must use our diverse perspectives to generate new ideas and work together to address water challenges. Public-private partnerships and cross-sector collaboration are crucial in solving water-related challen...
As the New Orleans drinking water crisis illustrates, drought in coastal, river-dominated systems contains an additional layer of complexity because it serves as the terminus of the entire river system, especially those at the continent scale like the MRB. Figure 1c shows that coastal water levels...
Deadly flash floods hit Nepal and Brazil in 2024, while riverfloodingcaused devastation in central Europe, China and Bangladesh. Super Typhoon Yagi, which struck south-east Asia in September, was intensified by the climate crisis, as was Storm Boris which hit Europe the same month. Droughts also...
Tue, Jan 30th 2024 COP28 There's a water crisis looming. Big Tech and AI could make it worse Thu, Dec 7th 2023 Sustainable Future Water scarcity is emerging as a global economic threat. With China, India looking the most at risk Mon, Jun 12th 2023 Squawk Box Asia Xylem's acquisition ...
Consequently, this study examines how the American government plays some roles in the occurrence of environmental racism, that is, the Flint Water Crisis (FWC) in Michigan. Racial capitalism theory is used as a theoretical lens in this study. Racial capitalism, historical residential housing ...
Article23 May 2024 Introduction The World Economic Forum 2020 has ranked the water crisis as the paramount social risk of this decade1. Managing water resources is the core pillar for addressing the most urgent challenges2and achieving sustainable development3in the Anthropocene. Due to intensifying ...
The Atlantic Ocean is a huge source of water, but it’s expensive to process to make it useable. Regardless, desalination plants are springing up across the US in response to a looming water crisis. Photograph by ShutterStock Perhaps the simplest solution is to use less water. Los Angeles ha...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal watchdog is calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to strengthen its oversight of state drinking water systems nationally and respond more quickly to public health emergencies such as the lead-in-the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. In a 74-page report releas...
Is there a water–energy nexus in electricity generation? Long-term scenarios for the western United States. Energ. Policy 59, 235–241 (2013). Article Google Scholar Sovacool, B. K. & Sovacool, K. E. Preventing national electricity-water crisis areas in the United States. Colum. J. ...
June 22, 2016 - Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette files civil lawsuits against two companies for their alleged role in the Flint water crisis. Veolia North America is charged with negligence, fraud and public nuisance. Lockwood, Andrews & Newman (LAN) is charged with negligence and public ...