Parts of California could receive more rain this week than they’ve gotten cumulatively over the past eight months. But the …
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California’s Farmers Need Water. Is Desalination the Answer?
As Obama visits drought-stricken California, new ways to create fresh water are getting a second look
5 Ways to Bust California’s Drought
The rain isn’t falling, but the Golden State has has the tools to beat the drought
Hundred Years of Dry: How California’s Drought Could Get Much, Much Worse
Scientists fear California’s long-ago era of mega-droughts could be back
New Mideast Pipeline Deal Shows Why Water Doesn’t Start Wars
It’s a truism that water will be the cause of the next world war. But a new diplomatic agreement shows why that belief is false.
Immense Freshwater Reserves Discovered Beneath Ocean Floor
Could alleviate earth’s looming water resource crises
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At the Farm and the Brewery, MillerCoors Gets More Beer to the Barrel with Water Efficiency
Thanks to population growth and climate change, water is becoming an ever more precious resources—putting extra emphasis on efficiency. How one beer company is getting more buzz from its water
This Year’s Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone Could Be the Biggest on Record
The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico—a growing and shrinking region of oxygen-free water—could be the largest on record this summer, thanks to flooding and fertilizer runoff.
California Kindling: A Dry Winter and Reduced Snowpack Means Wildfires for the Golden State
The wildfire season is starting early in southern California this year, thanks in part to an unusually dry winter and spring. As the climate warms, will drought and fires become the norm?
Tuvalu Goes Dry
From TIME’s Allison Berry:
The tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu has declared a state of emergency because it has only several days’ worth of fresh water remaining, after being ravaged by an extended drought. Neighboring New Zealand and Australia have stepped in and offered to provide desalination equipment, which would keep the …