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Other cities may go dry as soon as this summer. What’s at stake, and how to prepare.

On this edition of Conversations, Sandra Postel talks with host Dan Skinner about National Geographic Kids, \“Water – Why Every Drop Counts and How You Can Start Making Waves to Protect It.\”

Stockholm (Sweden), Aug 30 (EFE) - The World Water Week has begun in the Swedish capital, a meeting that brings together public and private actors to discuss how to preserve the resource, with drought. World Water Week conference begins in the midst of a drought | EFE Comunica | Agencia EFE

Stockholm (Sweden), Aug 30 (EFE) – The World Water Week has begun in the Swedish capital, a meeting that brings together public and private actors to discuss how to preserve the resource, with droughts this summer affecting not only arid places but also countries like Germany and France. The event, which has been held since …

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The School of the Environment will host a free, public presentation, “Environmental Justice in Rural America,” by leading environmental justice activist Catherine Coleman Flowers at noon on Wednesday, Feb. 16.

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Stakeholders and experts at the just concluded 2021 World Water Week organized by Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), have insisted that it will not be feasible to fix water crisis and climate change globally without the political will and sufficient investments from the international community. This was the verdict of participants at […]

King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has presented the Stockholm Water Prize 2020 and 2021 at a digital ceremony. The 2020 winner, John Cherry, was recognised for discoveries that have revolutionized how we view threats to groundwater. His research has raised awareness of the growing problem of polluted groundwater, leading to new, more effective solutions.…

‘Megadrought’ persists in western U.S., as another extremely dry year develops The long-running dry stretch rivals anything in the last 1200 years, a sign of climate-change induced "aridification." ByAlejandra Borunda Email Water levels usually peak in May at Folsom Lake in California, rising as Sierra Nevada snowpack melts away and courses down to the reservoir, near Sacramento. But this year, the drought that has gripped much of the U.S. West is already so strong that the lake is only hal...