Circle of Blue: In the 2015 Millennium Development Goals report, it says that 91 percent of the global population is using an “improved drinking water source” compared to 76 percent in 1990. What does ...

Readers of Circle of Blue know well that industrial agriculture is the largest source of water pollution in the United States. Fertilizer draining from farmland and manure pouring out of factory ...

By Gary Wilson In 2024 when Donald Trump as a presidential candidate proposed piping water from British Columbia, Canada to California, his statement was largely dismissed as campaign rhetoric. Once ...

Federal Water Tap Weekly digest spotting trends in U.S. government water policy. Delivered every Monday.

India’s response to water challenges in the next months and years will affect generations. Delhi is thirsty, even parched. As the 3rd largest population center in the world, its 25 million people need ...

Water, Texas is a six-part series on the consequences of the mismatch between runaway development and tightening constraints on the supply and quality of fresh water in Texas. The story of Texas is ...

Circle of Blue is more than one of the world’s premier water newsrooms that provides policymakers, business leaders, and everyday citizens with an authoritative, independent, and world-renowned source ...

Overview: Republicans aim to cut National Science Foundation grants linked to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), threatening key environmental research. Critical climate and water research is at ...

In April 2014, an ill-fated decision to switch water sources triggered a series of governance and infrastructure failures that contaminated drinking water in Flint, Michigan’s seventh largest city, ...

Agriculture consumes more water than any other use. As food production increases to feed 9 billion people by 2050, the links between water and food only grow stronger.

2010-2019 water rates data from 30 major U.S. cities. The interactive graphs show average monthly residential water prices for three levels of consumption and the annual percent change Circle of ...