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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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Sep 3, 2019 • 16min
What's Up With Water – September 3, 2019
Your "need to know" news of the world's water from Circle of Blue, including this week's feature: how solar pumps in India could threaten the nation's groundwater.
Aug 26, 2019 • 5min
What's Up With Water - August 26, 2019 Excerpt: Legionnaire's Disease
This excerpt on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's findings that identifies deficiencies in plumbing and building codes, policies, and research in relation to combating Legionnaire's disease in the U.S.
Aug 26, 2019 • 20min
What's Up With Water – 8.26.19
Your "need to know" news from Circle of Blue, with summaries of the top stories and a look in this episode at Legionnaire's Disease in the U.S.
Aug 19, 2019 • 4min
Forecasting Urban Water Crises
This excerpt looks at the challenge of forecasting urban water crises and comes from the August 19, 2019 episode of What's Up With Water.
Aug 19, 2019 • 16min
What's Up With Water – August 19, 2019
Your "need to know" news of the world's water from Circle of Blue, with important stories from the week. This episode's Circle of Blue feature looks at the challenge of forecasting urban water crises.
Aug 13, 2019 • 4min
Circle of Blue Story: Massachusetts Water Affordability
This excerpt on a new study that examined Massachusetts water affordability, and how a state-level study fits within a national narrative, comes from the 8.12.19 episode of What's Up With Water.
Aug 12, 2019 • 13min
What's Up With Water August 12, 2019
Your "need to know" news of the world's water, from Circle of Blue, with top stories and, this week, a look at affordable access to water services in Massachusetts, and what that shows about water management in the U.S. as a whole.
Aug 5, 2019 • 3min
Taps Run Dry for Millions in Zimbabwe’s Capital
From Circle of Blue's full 08/05/19 episode of What's Up With Water comes a brief on the state of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, which is increasingly desperate for water.
Two million people live in the metropolitan area, and the mayor said that over half of residents could get running water only once a week. Instead, they are lining up for hours at springs, streams, public wells, and boreholes – water sources that are themselves at risk of failure. As residents forego laundry and sanitation and focus on finding water, the crisis magnifies social and economic hardships in a country already grappling with inflation, currency devaluation, and the high cost of imported goods.
Aug 4, 2019 • 12min
What's Up With Water - August 5, 2019
Your "need to know" news of the world's water from Circle of Blue, with the major stories of the week.
Jul 30, 2019 • 5min
The U.S. Drills Deeper Wells
To locate sufficient supplies of fresh water, the nation’s groundwater wells are being drilled deeper and deeper, according to an analysis of more than 10 million well records since the 1950s.
