The Environmental Protection Agency says California has $455 million in unspent safe-drinking-water funds. EPA Regional Administrator Jared Blumenfeld said the agency has given the state 60 days to take corrective action, and if it fails to do so, the EPA may suspend payments from the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund. Meanwhile, Ron Chapman, director of the California Department of Public ... read more >>

Of all Georgia’s natural resources, none is more important to the future of our state than water. The wise use and management of water is critical to support the state’s economy, to protect public health and natural systems, and to enhance the quality of life for all citizens. ... read more >>

Water is our past. Water is our future. Without it, we cannot survive, and there are no alternatives. Many people have likened the issue of water scarcity to our current economic struggle over petroleum. Without petroleum, we can’t drive our cars, and maybe we have to walk to school or work. This is not the case for water, as we are not dealing with simple inconveniences (as grandiose as they may ... read more >>

the dispute between Georgia, Florida, and Alabama over the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River Basin and its ecologically impressive estuary, the Apalachicola Bay ... read more >>

California has failed to spend $455 million of federal money meant to improve water infrastructure in the state, while thousands of people rely on groundwater laced with nitrates and other contaminants, federal regulators said Friday.
The state has received more than $1.5 billion for its Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund over the past 15 years, but has failed to spend a large part of it i ... read more >>

In the last few years, global warming has received all of the press. But shortages of fresh water are arguably the greater near-term environmental threat in many corners of the globe. In the Western United States, major die-offs of salmon have been attributed to too little clean water flowing downstream after cities and farms pulled out their allotments. In Australia, as much as 25%1 of farmland ... read more >>

In the near future, the Sierra Nevada’s climate is projected to experience a new form of climate change due to increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the global atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities. If the changes occur, they presumably will be added to the large inter-annual and longer-term climate variations in the recent and distant past that have be ... read more >>

Economic impact of climate change on Nevada Climate change, economics, Nevada Policymakers across the country are now seeking solutions to curb greenhouse gas emissions and to help us adapt to the impending impacts triggered by past emissions. The debate to date has primarily focused on the perceived costs of alternative solutions, yet there can also be significant costs of inaction. Climate chan ... read more >>

As anyone who has ever been caught in a sudden and unexpected downpour knows, gaps still exist in our knowledge about the behavior and movement of precipitation, clouds and storms. An upcoming satellite mission from NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) aims to fill in those gaps both in coverage and in scientists' understanding of precipitation ... read more >>

Hundreds of billions of dollars in fossil fuel investments would be stranded, triggering a potential economic crisis, if companies continue to invest in fossil fuels while governments introduce stronger policies to limit global warming, a new report says. The joint study from UK-based Carbon Tracker Initiative and the Grantham Institute finds that $674 billion was spent on exploring and developin ... read more >>