Water | https://ens-newswire.com We Cover the Earth for You! Wed, 24 May 2023 00:05:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.7 https://ens-newswire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/favicon.jpg Water | https://ens-newswire.com 32 32 Western Tribes Funded for Clean Water, Power, Dam Safety https://ens-newswire.com/western-tribes-funded-for-clean-water-power-dam-safety/ Wed, 24 May 2023 00:05:55 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=98761 SUPAI, Arizona, May 23, 2023 (ENS) – Tribal communities in five Western states: Arizona, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, and Washington, will receive millions from the $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, [...]

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First WMO Global Water Analysis Finds a Drying World https://ens-newswire.com/first-wmo-global-water-analysis-finds-a-drying-world/ Wed, 30 Nov 2022 02:25:01 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=98060 GENEVA, Switzerland, November 29, 2022 (ENS) – Most of the planet was drier than normal in 2021, with “cascading effects on economies, ecosystems and our daily lives,” the UN World [...]

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On Clean Water Act 50th Anniversary U.S. Invests $50 Billion https://ens-newswire.com/on-clean-water-act-50th-anniversary-u-s-invests-50-billion/ Tue, 18 Oct 2022 06:03:53 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=97888 WASHINGTON, DC, October 18, 2022 (ENS) – Fifty years ago today the Clean Water Act of 1972 became law, requiring America to protect and restore the crucial waterways that must [...]

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Japan’s Nuclear Agency OKs Release of Treated Fukushima Water https://ens-newswire.com/japans-nuclear-agency-oks-release-of-treated-fukushima-water/ Sun, 24 Jul 2022 23:44:29 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=97434 TOKYO, Japan, July 24, 2022 (ENS) – Japan’s nuclear regulator on Friday officially approved a plan to release more than a million tons of treated water from the damaged Fukushima [...]

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Massachusetts Drinking Water Polluted With Firefighting Foam https://ens-newswire.com/massachusetts-drinking-water-polluted-with-firefighting-foam/ Thu, 26 May 2022 00:58:38 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=97302 BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 25, 2022 (ENS) – State Attorney General Maura Healey today sued 13 manufacturers of poly- and perfluoroalkyl, PFAS, the so-called forever chemicals used in firefighting foam. They [...]

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Bypassed for Decades, Great Lakes Get Billion Dollar Cleanup https://ens-newswire.com/bypassed-for-decades-great-lakes-get-billion-dollar-cleanup/ Fri, 18 Feb 2022 08:12:00 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=96672 LORAIN, Ohio, February 18, 2022 (ENS) – In Lorain, once famed for its shipyards, where the Black River flows into Lake Erie, President Joe Biden Thursday announced that his administration [...]

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World Wetlands Day: Guarding the ‘Most Threatened Ecosystem’ https://ens-newswire.com/world-wetlands-day-guarding-the-most-threatened-ecosystem/ Thu, 03 Feb 2022 03:24:32 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=96333 GENEVA, Switzerland, February 2, 2022 (ENS) – In 2020 wildfires destroyed 30 percent of the Pantanal, South America’s largest wetland extending across Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay. For the last 60 [...]

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Climate Scientists Warn of ‘Looming’ World Water Crisis https://ens-newswire.com/climate-scientists-warn-of-looming-world-water-crisis/ Wed, 13 Oct 2021 00:56:31 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=94956 GENEVA, Switzerland, October 12, 2021 (ENS) – The World Meteorological Organization is holding a special session of its Congress to meet the “explosive” growth in the demand for weather, climate, [...]

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Judge Terminates Trump-era ‘Dirty Water Rule’ https://ens-newswire.com/judge-terminates-trump-era-dirty-water-rule/ Wed, 01 Sep 2021 18:04:01 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=94470

WASHINGTON, DC, August 31, 2021 (ENS) – A federal judge in Arizona Monday overturned the Trump-era Navigable Waters Protection Rule, more commonly known as the Dirty Water Rule, in a [...]

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Water Crisis Squeezes Lebanon https://ens-newswire.com/water-crisis-squeezes-lebanon/ Thu, 05 Aug 2021 06:35:59 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=94286

BEIRUT, Lebanon, August 4, 2021 (ENS) – More than four million of the 6.8 million people in Lebanon, including a million refugees, are at immediate risk of losing their access [...]

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Salt Pollution Threatens Human Water Security https://ens-newswire.com/93550/ Thu, 22 Apr 2021 15:48:19 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=93550

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, April 22, 2021 (ENS) – “Inland freshwater salt pollution is rising nationwide and worldwide, and we investigated the potential conflict between managing freshwater salt pollution and the sustainable [...]

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Invaluable: Waters Clean Enough to Drink https://ens-newswire.com/invaluable-waters-clean-enough-to-drink/ Mon, 22 Mar 2021 22:17:54 +0000 http://ens-newswire.com/?p=93145 NEW YORK, New York, March 22, 2021 (ENS) – Clean drinkable water is rare and precious. Of the waters that cover 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, roughly 97 percent [...]

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U.S. Hispanics High Risk for Arsenic in Drinking Water https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-hispanics-high-risk-for-arsenic-in-drinking-water/ Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:07:16 +0000 http://ens-newswire.com/?p=92873  

NEW YORK, New York, December 17, 2020 (ENS) – Community water systems that fail to comply with the federal arsenic standard are most likely to occur in the Southwest, [...]

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Michigan to Pay Flint $600 Million for Water Crisis https://ens-newswire.com/michigan-to-pay-flint-600-million-for-water-crisis/ Mon, 24 Aug 2020 00:18:43 +0000 http://ens-newswire.com/?p=92544  

FLINT, Michigan, August 23, 2020 (ENS) – The State of Michigan has agreed to a $600 million settlement of civil lawsuits brought against the state by residents of the [...]

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Dam Development Is ‘Silencing’ the Mekong River https://ens-newswire.com/dam-development-is-silencing-the-mekong-river/ Thu, 24 Oct 2019 14:26:43 +0000 http://ens-newswire.com/?p=92061  

BANGKOK, Thailand, October 24, 2019 (ENS) – In five days, the Xayaburi Hydropower Project on the Mekong River in northern Laos will formally begin operations. As the first dam [...]

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World Water Week: Water Scarcity Becoming Urgent https://ens-newswire.com/world-water-week-water-scarcity-becoming-urgent/ Thu, 29 Aug 2019 01:16:04 +0000 http://ens-newswire.com/?p=91930  

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, August 28, 2019 (ENS) – When World Water Week opened in Stockholm Monday, speakers at the annual event addressing global water issues called for an immediate [...]

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Newark Drinking Water Emergency: Lead Filters Failing https://ens-newswire.com/newark-drinking-water-emergency-lead-filters-failing/ Wed, 21 Aug 2019 02:07:11 +0000 http://ens-newswire.com/?p=91898  

NEWARK, New Jersey, August 20, 2019 (ENS) – Filters intended to remove lead in the city of Newark’s tap water are not working as expected in at least [...]

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Krypton Reveals Ancient Aquifer Under the Negev Desert https://ens-newswire.com/krypton-reveals-ancient-aquifer-under-the-negev-desert/ Mon, 05 Aug 2019 21:26:34 +0000 http://ens-newswire.com/?p=91854  

BEERSHEBA, Israel, August 5, 2019 (ENS) – The Negev Desert, which covers half of Israel’s landmass, is so dry that parts of it get less than three inches [...]

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Himalayan Glaciers’ Melt Doubled Since Year 2000 https://ens-newswire.com/himalayan-glaciers-melt-doubled-since-year-2000/ Sat, 22 Jun 2019 00:48:30 +0000 http://ens-newswire.com/?p=91790  

NEW YORK, New York, June 21, 2019 (ENS) – The melting of Himalayan glaciers caused by rising temperatures has accelerated sharply since the start of the 21st century, [...]

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U.S. States Fight Trump Revision of Clean Water Rule https://ens-newswire.com/u-s-states-fight-trump-revision-of-clean-water-rule/ Mon, 15 Apr 2019 23:44:17 +0000 http://ens-newswire.com/?p=91625  

SACRAMENTO, California, April 15, 2019 (ENS) – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today joined a multistate letter urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of [...]

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