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Urban Water Lesson
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 […]
Mideast Water Series: The Politics of Water
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.
California’s Warmer Waves
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. […]
Water War Heats Up
Steve talks with reporter Maia Krache of member station KQED in San Francisco about the latest chapter in California’s water crisis. Recently federal water suppliers announced a total cutoff of water to some seven thousand farmers, only to partially reverse itself two weeks later. Krache says debate over the future of the Golden State’s water […]