Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
22 October 2021
New Mexico, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
In order to preserve and protect rivers a new movement that grants rivers personhood rights is growing. In places like New Zealand and Oregon, where some of these measures have passed rivers have the right to flow wit...
Atlas Obscura
Luke Fater
31 March 2021
Bermuda
Text
800-1500 Words
There is no natural freshwater source on Bermuda, so residents turn to rainfall as a way to fulfill their water needs. The white limestone Bermuda roofs are used to catch and redirect rain into underground tanks that ...
24 November 2020
Fidalgo Island, Washington, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
The Swinomish tribe in Washington state is combining traditional knowledge and science to combat the effects of climate change and improve the health of its land, water, and people. In recent years, their salmon harve...
29 June 2020
Hinta, Rajasthan, India
Text
1500-3000 Words
A group of farmers in India have been trained to monitor their village’s groundwater levels to help its residents make more informed decisions about irrigation based on water availability. The farmers-turned-researche...
1 February 2020
Jordan
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
Jordan is dealing with an influx of Syrian refugees that are putting a strain on already scarce resources like water. In response, the United Nations World Food Program has started to grow barley and other foods hydro...
13 November 2019
Laporiya, Rajasthan, India
Text
Under 800 Words
The people of a small village on the edge of the Thar Desert have managed for decades to resist "desertification" -- degradation of arid land to the point that it is uninhabitable -- by storing monsoon waters for use ...
7 November 2019
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
An elementary school program is teaching students about renewable energy in action. By working with the startup Zero Mass Water, educators can share lessons from the company’s hydropanels, which use solar energy to ca...
9 May 2019
Milton, Delaware, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A coastal recovery project in Delaware Bay is using a technique that they call "engineering with nature" to bring back the 4,000 acres of wetlands from the disastrous effects of human interference and climate change. ...
Ohio University School of Media Arts & Studies
Chad Reich
2 May 2019
Appalachia, Ohio, United States
Video
5-15 Minutes
After the legacy of acid mine drainage from abandoned coal mines in Appalachian Ohio, there are several initiatives working to clean up the rivers and streams. Change-agents from universities, local organizations, and...
22 April 2019
Hawaii, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Funded by federal grant money, the state, and the Office of Naval Research, Hawaii County public transit has developed its first hydrogen-powered shuttle bus. What’s been called the “fuel of the future,” hydrogen fuel...
9 February 2019
Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
When it comes to meteorology, citizen science can be a powerful resource. In New Mexico and neighboring states, volunteers are collecting data that helps researchers and state agencies map rainfall patterns. Through C...
KUNC
Luke Runyon
29 January 2019
Wolcott, Colorado, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
In the American Southwest, state water managers have been investing for decades in weather modification programs, otherwise known as "cloud seeding." Colorado River Basin states recently agreed to expand that effort, ...
16 August 2018
El Paso, Texas, United States
Multi-Media
Over 3000 Words
The Rio Grande River, which provides water to 6 million people and irrigates 2 million acres of farmland, is one of many transnational sources of water imperiled by climate change. Indeed, many states and countries th...
16 August 2018
Muskegon, Michigan, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Great Lakes contain 84 percent of the surface freshwater in North America—a staggering 21 percent of the surface freshwater worldwide. To manage the resource sustainably, all eight lake-bordering states, Congress,...
10 August 2018
Topeka, Kansas, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Western Kansas' finite Ogallala aquifer is the bedrock of an agricultural region that accounts for 10 percent of Kansas' economy. But thanks to decades of over-drafting for irrigation, the aquifer is on track to run d...
16 June 2018
Baku, Azerbaijan
Text
Under 800 Words
Turning rainwater into electric power may sound farfetched, but it has become a reality thanks to 15-year-old Reyhan Jamalova in Azerbaijan. Appropriately dubbed Rainergy, this new source of renewable energy has the p...
14 June 2018
Brazil
Text
Under 800 Words
Flushing a toilet is not only wasteful in terms of water usage, but it is also costly. "Few people know how many liters of water are used, or how much they pay for each liter of water used at home," explains Ezequiel ...
16 May 2018
Id Soussane, Morocco
Video
Over 15 Minutes
Two very different part of the world – California’s Central Valley and Western Morocco – are learning to adapt to water shortages. In the Central Valley, finding and treating water in a notoriously drought-ridden stat...
11 May 2018
Montrose, Colorado, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Thanks in part to the advancement of technology and federal reforms that now streamline a previously lengthy process, rural Colorado is proving to be a prime candidate for small hydropower projects.
19 December 2017
Newark, New Jersey, United States
Video
3-5 Minutes
Due in part to an outdated infrastructure, Newark's storm sewers get overwhelmed with litter, oil and other materials that end up impacting the cleanliness of the community's drinking water. To combat this issue, a gr...
20 December 2016
Dover, Delaware, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Dams make for complex and often controversial infrastructure. While hydropower generated from large dam projects is currently providing the bulk of the planet's renewable energy, dams can also cause major environmenta...
Mountain Town News
Allen Best
25 July 2016
Grand Lake, Colorado, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Micro-hydro projects in the United States have become much more accessible and more financially viable since Congress passed a law in 2013 making it easier for small hydroelectric projects to get federal approval. Spe...
19 July 2016
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Text
1500-3000 Words
Israel experienced extreme drought a few years ago and its water supply was very low. National campaigns to install desalination plants have helped Israel turnaround its inadequate water supply into a surplus. The wat...
International Rivers
Peter Bosshard
1 June 2016
Yangon, Yangon Region, Myanmar
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Hydropower Empowerment Network takes a country-by-country approach to helping establish micro hydro and other technologies in rural places where electricity is difficult to come by. Micro hydro has even proven to ...
1 February 2016
Manoa, Hawaii, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
The amount of plastic debris in our oceans and water sources - especially nanoplastics that are increasingly prevalent in our food chain - is so enormous it's often beyond comprehension, and immensely difficult to add...
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