From sewage and scum to swimming in ‘blue gold’: how Switzerland transformed its rivers
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The impact of sand mining - current rates predicted to be unsustainable
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Norway to open protected rivers to hydropower plants – Green politicians describe plan as ‘a historic attack on Norwegian nature’
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China to build world's largest hydropower dam in Tibet
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America's largest reservoir sees rising water levels after decades of depletion thanks to conservation in California
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Native American tribes celebrate the end of the largest dam removal project in US history
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How cities run dry
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As California dam removal wraps up, river flows for first time in century
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Why have salmon deserted Norway's rivers? Salmon farming and the climate crisis threaten the fish's future.
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Ecuador river is granted the right to not be polluted in historic court case
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Ecuador court rules pollution violates rights of a river running through capital
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Hay grown for cattle consumes nearly half the water drawn from Colorado River, study finds
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Atlantic sturgeon are being reintroduced to Swedish waters with the help of scientists and advocates nearly 100 years after they died out in the region
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US Supreme Court rejects states agreement over Rio grande water distribution
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Indigenous nations approve historic water rights agreement with state of Arizona. It now goes to US Congress.
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LA County captures ninety-six billion gallons of water during ‘super year’ of storms
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Alaskan rivers are turning orange
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Revealed: Tyson Foods dumps millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into US rivers and lakes
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Solar power is changing life deep in the Amazon
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Guangdong’s expected massive river flooding threatens millions after it ‘rained like a waterfall’
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Cattle are drinking the Colorado River dry
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Iowa fertilizer spill kills nearly all fish across sixty mile stretch of rivers
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By sending Mississippi river waters on a new course, engineers hope to build new land—and test ways to save a retreating coast
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Rivers reborn: Alewives continue to make a recovery in the Penobscot watershed in Maine
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How the UN is holding back the Sahara desert
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How beavers can fully revitalise a farm
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Inside the crime rings trafficking sand
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Why is the Colorado River running dry?
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Drought in Amazon Rainforest makes water level in Manaus sink to just thirteen meters, the lowest since records began
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The largest dam removal in history stirs hopes of restoring California tribes' way of life
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The pristine Tana River, bordering Norway and Finland, is littered with the rotting corpses of an invasive Pacific salmon species
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Saltwater is pushing its way up the Mississippi River
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What is saltwater intrusion and how is it affecting Louisiana’s drinking water?
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Human alteration of the global floodplains 1992-2019
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How a Japanese-run wastewater treatment plant in Mexico shamelessly polluted until the site was shut down
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An underground network of environmentalists are beaver bombing local rivers in some countries in Europe
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US federal grants will replace tunnels beneath roads that let water pass but not fish
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Judge rules in favor of Oklahoma against big chicken producers in poultry-pollution lawsuit
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As work begins on the largest US dam removal project, tribes look to a future of growth
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One in five Texans lives in a floodplain, state’s first-ever analysis shows
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Researchers are trying to unravel the mystery of snow that falls but never shows up in the Colorado river
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How far will salmon swim for a craft beer? In Oregon, researchers hope a surprising aroma will lure stray salmon back to their home hatcheries.
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Spanish authorities are seeking €90 Million in damages from a Swedish mining company for a major toxic spill near the famed Doñana National Park in 1998
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Highly radioactive spill near Columbia River in E. Washington worse than expected
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The crop that’s sucking the Colorado River dry: Hay swallows triple the water used by everyone in the region to shower, water lawns, and do laundry
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California fires back at other Western states with its own Colorado River plan
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Disaster scenarios raise the stakes for Colorado River negotiations
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Paris has pledged to make the Seine swimmable by the 2024 Summer Olympics, investing in a $1.6 billion stormwater holding tank to curb sewage pollution
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Mississippi River levels are dropping too low for barges to float
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Why the US Army electrifies this water
7 votes