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Some of us don’t know where our drinking water comes from. That’s especially true for city dwellers whose water often travels from hundreds of miles away. Many folks don’t make the connection between the picture postcards of streams in the country, and the water that flows from their faucets. Richard Schiffman reports on an event […]

Today, we conclude the re-broadcast of our special series on water in the Middle East. In the final installment of “Troubled Waters”, Living on Earth’s Sandy Tolan examines how water is controlled and distributed, and how this is fueling tensions between the Palestinians and the Israelis.

Two separate teams of oceanographers have recently published similar findings; over the last sixty years the surface temperature of the ocean off the California coast has risen measurably and more warm water marine species have appeared. The researchers have also found that some cold water marine life has disappeared, and there are fewer species overall. […]

The dry US west depends on irrigation to grow crops, and farmers depend on a “zanjero” to open and close the gates on the canals that steer water into their fields from great regional aqueducts. Meet Jose Romo, a veteran zanjero who ensures the country’s