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News Articles: water

Water pours out of Lake Oroville in Northern California in March. Reservoirs levels plummeted over the last three years, but now have more water than they can hold.

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  • Climate

3 reasons why California's drought isn't really over, despite all the rain

California has been deluged by storms this winter, but fixing the state's severe drought will take more than rain. The state had deeper problems in how it uses water.

March 23, 2023
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By:
  • Lauren Sommer
Aquatic plants and debris are exposed by the falling water levels at the Kakhovka Reservoir. Researchers say that the draining of the reservoir by Russian forces are but one example of the war's effect on Ukraine's water supply.

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  • Europe

A shrinking reservoir signals Ukraine and Russia are waging a dangerous water war

Russia is using a dam it controls to release water from Ukraine's massive Kakhovka Reservoir. It's one of dozens of cases where the war is limiting access to safe water.

March 22, 2023
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By:
  • Geoff Brumfiel and
  • Connie Hanzhang Jin
Georgia Power's Plant Scherer with the coal ash pond where residuals from burning coal at the plant are stored. The pond goes to depths of 80 feet in some places and comes into contact with groundwater.

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  • Environment

A new coal ash bill would align Georgia with federal rules

A Georgia House bill would align state law with the current federal rule around the storage of the toxic material left over from burning coal to make electricity, also known as coal ash. 

March 01, 2023
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Dropping water levels in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine have exposed fishing nets and roots of aquatic plants along the shoreline of the Dnipro river.

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  • Investigations

Russia is draining a massive Ukrainian reservoir, endangering a nuclear plant

Satellite data show water levels plummeting at the Kakhovka Reservoir. The reservoir supplies drinking water, irrigates vast tracts of farmland, and cools Europe's largest nuclear plant.

February 10, 2023
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By:
  • Geoff Brumfiel,
  • Connie Hanzhang Jin,
  • and 3 more
Floodwaters cover a property along River Rd. in Monterey County, Calif., as the Salinas River overflows its banks on Jan. 13, 2023.

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  • Weather

The winter storms in California will boost water allocations for the state's cities

Weeks of rainfall in California won't end a severe drought, but it will provide public water agencies serving 27 million people with much more water than the suppliers had been previously told.

January 27, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press

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  • Environment

Chattahoochee River Act signed into law

President Joe Biden recently signed legislation aimed at protecting the Chattahoochee River.

December 29, 2022
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By:
  • Dave Williams
Washington State Prison in Davisboro is one of two prisons in Georgia completely without air conditioning. Georgia is one of about a dozen states, all in the South or Southwest, without completely climate controlled prison systems.

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  • News

Atlanta jail without water or heat, detainees' relatives say

Relatives of people incarcerated at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta say there's been no running water or heat there for days. The families are concerned about what they're calling "inhumane" conditions.

December 29, 2022
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  • Associated Press
The fountain is frozen as temperatures hovered in the mid 20s at Jacob Schoen & Son Funeral Home in New Orleans on Dec. 24, 2022.

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  • National

A deep freeze is breaking pipes and creating a water crisis across the South

The problems stemming from burst water pipes were happening in large, troubled water systems such as Jackson, Miss., where residents were required over Christmas to boil water.

December 28, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Georgia Power's Plant Scherer with the coal ash pond where residuals from burning coal at the plant are stored. The pond goes to depths of 80 feet in some places and comes into contact with groundwater.

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  • Environment

Federal action on coal ash in Ohio has big implications in Georgia

A recent order by the EPA telling an Ohio power plant it could no longer dispose of toxic coal ash in an unlined pond, thereby polluting groundwater, could have important implications for four Georgia Power sites.

December 02, 2022
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Liz Fabian  Macon Water Authority Chairman Sam Hart began last Thursday’s called meeting by sharing concerns about a report of possible board member misconduct.

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  • News

DA seeks Macon Water Authority member inquiry over allegations of violations

Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney Anita Howard is asking Macon Water Authority board members to submit to voluntary questioning in the wake of allegations of open meeting violations and other misconduct.

November 03, 2022
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By:
  • Liz Fabian
Residents of Mykolaiv collect clean water from a distribution station set up by the International Committee of the Red Cross on Oct. 1.

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  • World

A Ukrainian city struggles after Russian forces blew up its water supply

Russian missiles ruptured Mykolaiv's pipelines. They stretch across territory under Russian control, making it impossible for municipal workers to repair them. With winter coming, worries are rising.

October 08, 2022
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By:
  • Jason Beaubien

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  • News

New report: Georgia 13th in nation for amount of toxic chemicals dumped in waterways

Industrial facilities released more than 5 million pounds of toxic chemicals into Georgia’s waterways in 2020, putting Georgia in 13th place nationwide, according to a new report released by Environment Georgia. 

October 05, 2022
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By:
  • Rebecca Grapevine
A team composed of Macon Water Authority scientists and outside contractors net fish on a small stretch of Walnut Creek in Macon on a recent morning.

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  • Environment

Fish can tell a creek's story. To catch the fish is shocking

The creeks, streams and rivers we rely on for clean water are increasingly under stress from pollution and even from the power of rainfall itself. 

To measure how that stress affects a watershed’s health, you can do lots of different things, like measuring the oxygen in the water or looking at how stormwater runoff changes a streambed. Or, you can look and see what is still living in the stream.

 

October 03, 2022
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
The O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant in Jackson, Mississippi, shown late last month. Jackson is currently struggling with access to safe drinking water after flooding caused a disruption at a main water processing facility.

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  • Climate

The crisis in Jackson shows how climate change is threatening water supplies

Historic flooding and record droughts are stressing water systems across the country, and experts warn that with climate change intensifying the crisis in Jackson, Miss., may be just the beginning.

September 07, 2022
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
A formerly sunken boat sits high and dry along the shoreline of Lake Mead at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, on May 10, near Boulder City, Nev.

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  • Climate

U.S. says drought-stricken Arizona and Nevada will get less water from Colorado River

U.S. officials announced Tuesday that the two states, which rely on water from the Colorado River, will face more water cuts as they endure extreme drought.

August 16, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
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