Urban waterways have many benefits—but they’re not accessible to all communities.
Water
Dogged by flooding from Lake Michigan, South Side residents have finally drawn attention from city and state officials.
Decades of disinvestment have led to racialized disparities in access to safe drinking water and effective wastewater services.
Decentralized water recycling systems are a leading strategy to make water use more sustainable.
Spring-fed sources may help prepare for a drier climate future in the Himalayas.
For Jackson, Flint, and the Navajo Nation, clean water shouldn’t be a pipe dream.
Water has an appetite.
Water has a living spirit and holds memories from the beginning of time.
Among the forecast effects of climate change, one in particular poses special concern: We’re running out of water.
Like water itself, the protection of this vital resource takes many different forms.
Pregnant people across the country lack safe drinking water—so grassroots organizations are stepping in.
Bringing back bivalves and reintroducing aquatic plants can connect people to their waterways—and the ecosystems we all depend on.
Their success is changing the perception of Aboriginal communities from “fish thieves” to leaders in regional development.
Fifty Years after the passage of the Clean Water Act, the future of America’s waterways hangs in the balance.
Native rights | Sustainable food and farming | Indigenous lands | Pollution | Climate | Racial Justice
Climate-conscious farmers are a powerful force for growing community and a more resilient future.
“Once we collectively feel this connection, this relationship, we can then begin to understand the responsibility we have—the responsibility that I feel, and that my ancestors felt.”
The endorsement and buy-in of critical stakeholders, like fishers, can make or break a conservation project. So fishers were invited to the table as the project took shape.
The UN declaration is more than moral posturing. Resolutions like this one have led to effective treaties and national laws.
Repurposing water (with treatment, of course) is a safe way to help communities build water resilience in the face of growth and climate change.
Near San Francisco, an ambitious wetlands restoration project is attempting to balance a return to the ecological past with the realities of a changing future.
Native tribes are reliant on their local water sources, which have been continuously exploited and contaminated by the U.S. government and non-Native people. Indigenous groups are finding new ways to demand justice.
A new podcast explores the rights of nature movement and its potential to shift Western legal doctrine around environmental protection.
“Lawmakers need to figure out better ways to balance the interests of industry with protecting people’s health.”
Indigenous communities and conservationists around the world are challenging the long-held view of water as a human commodity. Can the same approach work in the United States’ arid Southwest?
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