This Massachusetts river is among the top 10 most endangered in the country, called ‘poster child’ for outdated water system
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In Ipswich, outdated laws are keeping much of the watershed from being subject to regulation, officials said. Around 80% of the roughly 30 million gallons of water that is withdrawn from the river every day for human use is exported and gone forever, according to Wayne Castonguay, executive director of the Ipswich River Watershed Association. (Courtesy Steve Fantone/Ipswich River Watershed Association)
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Last summer, at the height of Massachusetts’ worst drought in years, the 35-mile-long Ipswich River was flowing at a meager rate of 0.5 cubic feet per second “basically nothing.”
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It was in the WNBA bubble the Wubble that New York Liberty guard Layshia Clarendon made the decision. The Wubble was a stressful experience for Clarendon. For one, they were living through a pandemic. For another, life at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., was very small. Clarendon shuffled among their villa, the gym and games, like
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Akanksha Chadda and her husband, Ashish Anand, with their children, Rehan, 8, and Gunika, 4, at home in Noida, India. The family is struggling to stay afloat after the pandemic left the couple without jobs.Credit.Smita Sharma for The New York Times
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