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  • This Week in Water for May 13, 2108
    During Droughts These Pests Will Bite You More. That story and others on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.
    Groundwater inside Hawaii's Kilauea volcano could erupt in steam explosions.
    Beavers are "dam" good cleaners.
    Urban areas are losing something important for water and air quality.
    Dry conditions may not offer any protection from these buzzing biters.
    The Colorado River is peaking early and at record low levels.
    Bats could help us find clean water, according to a Colorado State University researcher.
    8 min
  • This Week in Water for April 29, 2018
    Cape Town Gets Some Relief—But Is it Enough? That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.
    Colorado State University hosted the inaugural Water in the West Symposium in Denver last week.
    The EPA wants to roll back protections for groundwater, but not if an eight-year old Girl Scout has a say in the matter.
    It rained in Cape Town—and it really, really, really rained in Hawaii.
    Residents of Miami will soon have an app they can use to see how their property might be affected by sea level rise.
    Despite the epic damage from Harvey, the Houston City Council approved plans to build 900 homes in a floodplain.
    Which is more stressful—winter or summer?
    7 min
  • This Week in Water for Earth Day, April 22, 2018
    Tribes May Get Support from New Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.
    Tribes argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that the state of Washington must replace water culverts that block salmon migration.
    There has been some movement toward talks between the two factions feuding about water allocation on the Colorado River.
    Tiny centimeter-long animals are causing massive ocean mixing.
    Several lawsuits were filed last week by children, state governments, and municipalities about climate change.
    The Bajau people can stay underwater for several minutes at a time. How do they do it?
    7 min
  • This Week in Water for April 15, 2018
    An Oil Pipeline Is Causing a Constitutional Crisis. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.
    Headlines:
    A trade war has broken out between Alberta and British Columbia. At the heart of the matter is protecting water.
    Some are concerned that this circulation may be reaching a tipping point where it could stop completely.
    A new study makes connections between climate change and volcanic eruptions.
    Young people ages seven to 26 years old in Colombia scored an historic victory when the Supreme Court ruled that the Amazon River basin has rights just like humans.
    Bees are getting stung by climate change.
    7 min
  • This Week in Water for April 8, 2018
    Pruitt Grabs Control of Water Regulation as Ethics Allegations Swirl. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.
    EPA administrator Pruitt mandated that authority previously delegated to regional offices is now retained by him.
    There are almost as many hogs as people in North Carolina, and what to do about all the swine waste just went on trial.
    From the end of October until the middle of March no rain or snow fell in this world capitol—the longest drought on record.
    The third longest river in the Lower 48 has already dried up in places, which is unusual so early in the year.
    There's been a lot of focus on plastic pollution in the earth’s oceans, but those plastics are also prevalent on land and in freshwater.
    Urine trouble: Stopping peeing in the pond.
    7 min
  • Dryland: Farmers in Some of the Toughest Places to Do Agriculture Are Innovating for Climate Change
    "Dryland" farmers on the high plains of Colorado grow their crops with whatever falls from the sky—no irrigation, no pumped groundwater—just what Mother Nature delivers. In recent years some have been trying to innovate to protect their soils and conserve water to prepare for climate change. But they're getting pushback—not only from their neighbors and their own families—but also from the government.
    7 min
  • This Week in Water for March 25, 2018
    The New Spending Bill Spares the Environment. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.
    The omnibus spending bill that was signed into law has lots of surprises for the environment—and they're good.
    This court hearing about climate change might have revealed the oil giants strategy to defend themselves.
    Michigan state senator Coleman Young II said new information added a "sinister and ghoulish layer" to the Flint water disaster.
    People in Houston may never know the extent of the pollution following Hurricane Harvey.
    None of the nearby inhabitants seemed to mind this mechanical interloper.
    7 min

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