Afroz misses school every day to spend hours waiting with a handcart full of containers for a special train bringing precious water to people suffering a heatwave in India’s desert state of Rajasthan. Temperatures often exceed 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) here, but this year the heat came early in what many experts say is… >> Read More
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California’s gigantic water supplier took the unprecedented step Tuesday of requiring about 6 million people to cut their outdoor watering to one day a week as drought continues to plague the state. The board of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California declared a water shortage emergency and required the… >> Read More
As of today (April 15), the world’s third largest shipping line, will no longer accept deliveries of scrap plastic on any of its ships. CMA CGM’s ban is a milestone in a global backlash against wealthy nations—especially the US—dumping plastic waste in China and Southeast Asia. China used to be the biggest destination for scrap… >> Read More
PHOENIX—Arizona is the first state to experience deep cuts caused by a drought-driven decline in the Colorado River, one of the most important water sources in the American Southwest. Farmers in the fast-growing state are losing most of the water they get from the Colorado this year, and many are leaving large tracts of land… >> Read More
The seven Colorado River basin states have a plan to temporarily stabilize Lake Powell. It contains some pain and not a lot of gain. Yet no one balked. And that’s a win. That should signal how dire the circumstances have become. The U.S. Department of the Interior noted in an April 8 letter to the… >> Read More