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Circle Of Blue
Founded in 2000 by leading journalists and scientists, Circle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises.
With an intense focus on water and its relationships to food, energy, and health, Circle of Blue has created a breakthrough model of front-line reporting, data collection, design, and convening that has evolved with the world’s need to spur new methodology in science, collaboration, innovation, and response. To document emerging and recognized crises, Circle of Blue collaborates with leading scientists and data experts. Through its partnerships, Circle of Blue then dispatches top journalists to map and define the region where the change is occurring. Making connections from localized occurrences to global trends, Circle of Blue publishes these reports online — free of charge — to inform academics, governments, and the general public, catalyzing participation across disciplines, regions, and cultures.
With an intense focus on water and its relationships to food, energy, and health, Circle of Blue has created a breakthrough model of front-line reporting, data collection, design, and convening that has evolved with the world’s need to spur new methodology in science, collaboration, innovation, and response. To document emerging and recognized crises, Circle of Blue collaborates with leading scientists and data experts. Through its partnerships, Circle of Blue then dispatches top journalists to map and define the region where the change is occurring. Making connections from localized occurrences to global trends, Circle of Blue publishes these reports online — free of charge — to inform academics, governments, and the general public, catalyzing participation across disciplines, regions, and cultures.
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Dec 14, 2020 • 7min
Colorado River Indian Tribes Take Another Step Toward Marketing Valuable Water in Arizona
The tribes unveiled draft legislation to allow their water to be leased to users in Arizona off the reservation or stored underground.
Dec 13, 2020 • 11min
What's Up With Water -December 14, 2020
Your "need to know news" of the world's water from Circle of Blue. This week: lead service line replacement in Flint, extension of a shutoff moratorium in Detroit and criticism of a government plan in Australia to fill coal mines with water. Plus, a COB story on the Colorado River basin, where legal maneuvers could boost flexibility for water use in a drying region.
Dec 7, 2020 • 6min
What's Up WIth Water - 12.7.20
Your "need to know" news of the world's water from Circle of Blue. This week: drinking water advisories in Canada's First Nations, climate as a security risk in Brazil, refugees fleeing damage from two hurricanes in Central America, and researchers identify a toxic compound that is killing coho salmon in the Puget Sound region.
Dec 2, 2020 • 32min
Speaking Of Water - What the Biden Administration Might Mean For Water
What a Biden administration might mean for federal water policy.
Guests:
Heather Cooley, the director of research at the Pacific Institute, where she works on a variety of water and climate issues.
Anne Castle, a senior fellow at the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment at the University of Colorado Law School. From 2009 to 2014, Castle was the assistant secretary for water and science at the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Eric Schaeffer, the executive director of the Environmental Integrity Project. Schaeffer also led the EPA Office of Civil Enforcement from 1997 to 2002.
Nov 30, 2020 • 7min
As Global Poverty Rises, USAID Plans for Covid-Altered World
This is an excerpt of the November 30, 2020 episode of What's Up With Water.
So many who were at the cusp of a better life have been beset by an extraordinary reversal of fortune. Until this year, extreme poverty had been steadily falling across the globe over the recent decades. At the same time, hundreds of millions of people had gained access to proper water and sanitation services.
The spread of the new coronavirus has twisted those trajectories.
Nov 30, 2020 • 12min
What's Up WIth Water 11.30.20
Your "need to know" news of the world's water from Circle of Blue. Stories this week: Enbridge sues Michigan over Line 5 decision, Enbridge gains a federal permit to replace its Line 3 oil pipeline in Minnesota, the UN announces a sanitation and hygiene fund, and the UN food agency highlights water scarcity for farming regions. Plus a CoB feature on USAID's post-Covid strategy.
Nov 16, 2020 • 4min
California Water Utility Survey
This is an excerpt of the November 16, 2020 episode of What's Up With Water.
This week Circle of Blue reports on California’s efforts to better understand the pandemic’s impact on water utilities and their customers.
Last week, California regulators sent a survey to 150 of the state’s largest water providers. It’s an effort to assess the financial fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic.
The virus has caused economic slowdowns, and the State Water Resources Control Board wants to know how this affects water services – from the financial health of utilities who provide the water, to the households who may be unable to pay for it.
Nov 16, 2020 • 9min
What's Up With Water - 11.16.20
Your "need to know" news of the world's water from Circle of Blue. This week: an application for oil and gas wastewater disposal in Wyoming; lawsuits in New Jersey over PFAS pollution; and Michigan's governor orders the shut down of a controversial oil pipeline in the Great Lakes. The CoB feature looks at California’s efforts to better understand the pandemic’s impact on water utilities and their customers.
Nov 9, 2020 • 3min
Election Recap: U.S. Water Ballot Initiatives
Election Recap: U.S. Water Ballot Initiatives by Circle Of Blue
Nov 9, 2020 • 7min
What's Up With Water - 11.9.20
Your "need to know" news of the world's water from Circle of Blue. Three U.S. stories this week: on wildfire damage to a drinking water system in Oregon, groundwater regulations in Wisconsin, and dry wells in New Hampshire. Plus Circle of Blue reports on the outcome of water-related ballot initiatives in the November election.
