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Sep 9, 2022 · Houston, Texas. Officials are warning more than 2 million people in the Houston area to boil their water before using it to cook, bathe and drink after a power outage at a water purification plant ...
- Kiara Alfonseca
- 1 min
Apr 19, 2023 · Only 2.5% of Earth's water is freshwater, the kind we need to live, and nearly all of that water is underground. That finite amount of freshwater is being stretched over a growing number of humans ...
Mar 12, 2023 · These are desperate days for the Colorado River. The pulsing lifeblood of the U.S. southwest is increasingly parched. To avert catastrophe, the U.S. government will, within weeks, propose historic ...
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Aug 11, 2020 · For example, every degree of warming in the Salt Lake City region could drop the annual water flow of surrounding streams by as much as 6.5 percent—for cities in the western U.S. that rely on ...
- Jon Heggie
Feb 25, 2024 · The water cycle that shuttles Earth’s most vital resource around in an unending, life-giving loop is in trouble. Climate change has disrupted that cycle’s delicate balance, upsetting how water ...
By 2025, an estimated 1.8 billion people will live in areas plagued by water scarcity, with two-thirds of the world's population living in water-stressed regions as a result of use, growth, and ...