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A rise in water-related conflicts around the world

Conflict & Justice

The past couple of years have seen a major uptick in water-related conflicts globally. Peter Gleick of the Pacific Institute is attending World Water Week in Stockholm and speaks with The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler about the role water plays in global conflict.

Free Syrian Army fighters snap a picture of an elderly man using a mobile phone in Old Aleppo, Syria.

In Aleppo, cell phones are helping some desperate Syrians find clean water

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Lima taps ancient Andean canals to help fight its water shortage

Environment
Workers pick strawberries in a field on a farm in Oxnard, California, on February 24, 2015.

Agriculture is thriving in bone-dry California, and that’s not a good thing

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A visitor walks near the receding waters at California's Folsom Lake, which is at 17 percent of its capacity, On April 1, California Governor Jerry Brown announced unprecedented mandatory water restrictions and ordered the State Water Resources Board to r

California faces the worst water emergency since the Dust Bowl, and it needs solutions fast

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A man takes a shower as policemen patrol during an operation in Rio de Janeiro's Mare slums complex on March 30, 2014.

Drought forces Brazilians to curb their addiction to multiple daily showers

Environment

Brazilians are notoriously lavish bathers, taking as many as three showers a day. But as the country faces a major drought, they’re trying to find way to keep up the shower numbers while still saving water.

Protesters march through São Paulo recently demanding equitable distribution of water throughout São Paulo state. Unofficial rationing has brought frequent water outages to neighborhoods throughout the Brazilian megalopolis of 20 million people.

São Paulo residents demand their city take a new attitude about water

Environment

The unprecedented water crisis in South America’s largest city is leading citizens to change everything, from how they use water to how they engage with politics. But while the government is taking action, residents say it’s not nearly enough.

A worker fills a water tanker for distribution to a hospital in São Paulo in February. Residents throughout the metropolitan region of 20 million people are taking emergency measures amid a severe drought.

South America’s largest city is almost out of water

Environment

São Paulo is facing an unprecedented water crisis that many saw coming, but no one did much to prevent. And with reservoirs hovering near 10% of capacity, many residents are turning to unhealthy stopgaps and worrying about unrest.

Cyanobacteria, or "green slime," is wreaking havoc with Lake Erie's water supplies and fishing industries. The outbreaks are caused largely by runoff of fertilizers and other nutrients from farms, and they're a growing problem in the Great Lakes and aroun

In the fight against green slime on Lake Erie, farmers try to clean up their act

Environment

Nasty green slime poisoned water in Ohio last summer, and it’s becoming a regular thing in the region — and around the world. The problem is agricultural pollution, but some Ontario farmers are trying to try to cut back on the pollution that leads to the slime.

Water treatment tub in PA

Can fracking solve the problem of polluted mine water in Pennsylvania?

Environment

If there is anything people in Pennsylvania can agree on, it is that no one can agree whether the fracking boom has been a blessing or a curse for the state. A now a proposal to use abandoned mine water for tracking is causing more confusion and concern.