What's Up With Water 2021

Your "need to know" news of the world's water from Circle of Blue.
We begin the new year with three stories of water progress in the USA: a settlement for victims of the Flint water crisis, cleaner water in New Jersey and federal approval of a water rights settlement for the Navajo Nation in Utah.

What's Up With Water - January 4, 2021

Your "need to know" news of the world's water, from Circle of Blue. Stories this week on data sharing in the Mekong River basin, a shrinking glacier in Bolivia, and global land subsidence. Plus CoB feature on irrigation in India.

What's Up With Water - January 11, 2021

Your "need to know" news of the world's water from Circle of Blue. This week: Criminal charges in the Flint lead crisis, PFAS in drinking water in China, and the city of Victoria, British Columbia stops dumping raw sewage into an international waterway. Plus, a CoB feature on the Trump administration's last-minute rule changes for small streams.

What's Up With Water - January 18, 2021

Your "need to know" news of the world's water from Circle of Blue. This week: stories on a lead lawsuit, lake heatwaves, and the benefits of piped water for women and girls in Zambia. Plus a CoB feature story on water-bill debt in California.

What's Up With Water - January 25, 2021

Your "need to know" news of the world's water from Circle of Blue. Stories this week: Regulator in Australia rejects coal mine expansion beneath catchments that provide drinking water to Sydney, India's government proposes an ambitious urban water supply initiative, and activists in northern Minnesota oppose Line 3 oil pipeline replacement. Plus an exclusive CoB feature on Massachusetts water affordability.

What's Up With Water - February 8, 2021

Founded in 2000 by leading journalists and scientists, Circle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises.

With an intense focus on water and its relationships to food, energy, and health, Circle of Blue has created a breakthrough model of front-line reporting, data collection, design, and convening that has evolved with the world’s need to spur new methodology in science, collaboration, innovation, and response. To document emerging and recognized crises, Circle of Blue collaborates with leading scientists and data experts. Through its partnerships, Circle of Blue then dispatches top journalists to map and define the region where the change is occurring. Making connections from localized occurrences to global trends, Circle of Blue publishes these reports online — free of charge — to inform academics, governments, and the general public, catalyzing participation across disciplines, regions, and cultures.
