Circle of Blue | Water Reporting, Data & Convening
Oct 15, 2024 · The conflicting demand for water, food, and energy is the defining challenge of our century. Global Choke Point, a collaboration between Circle of Blue and the Wilson Center, explores the peril and promise with frontline reporting, data, and policy expertise. No one is better positioned to deliver groundbreaking knowledge on the critical ...
Water Pricing - Circle of Blue
May 5, 2017 · Water Pricing - Circle of Blue. 2010-2019 water rates data from 30 major U.S. cities. The interactive graphs show average monthly residential water prices for three levels of consumption and the annual percent change. Circle of Blue’s annual survey of water rates in 30 U.S. cities found the slowest rate of increase since the survey began in 2010.
Water Scarcity in India - Circle of Blue
Dec 4, 2018 · The country that pumps more groundwater than any other has reached a water supply and food safety reckoning that threatens to upend political and economic stability, and long-term public health. In this special report, building on years of on-the-ground coverage, Circle of Blue reveals how a nation of 1.3 billion people, by failing to protect ...
Flint Water Crisis - Circle of Blue
Flint Water Crisis - Circle of Blue. In April 2014, an ill-fated decision to switch water sources triggered a series of governance and infrastructure failures that contaminated drinking water in Flint, Michigan’s seventh largest city, with high levels of lead. For residents of Flint, whose concerns about water quality went unaddressed for ...
Infographic: The Age of U.S. Drinking Water Pipes - Circle of Blue
Feb 18, 2016 · Brett writes about agriculture, energy, infrastructure, and the politics and economics of water in the United States. He also writes the Federal Water Tap, Circle of Blue’s weekly digest of U.S. government water news.He is the winner of two Society of Environmental Journalists reporting awards, one of the top honors in American environmental journalism: first place for explanatory reporting ...
The Price of Water: A Comparison of Water Rates, Usage in 30 U.S ...
Apr 26, 2010 · The effect of the crossing trends is less severe in Chicago, Detroit and Milwaukee, where municipal water is supplied by the lakes and prices range from $24.12 to $28.36. “The reason why rates are so low in the Great Lakes region is proximity to abundant water,” said Nick Schroeck, executive director of the Great Lakes Environmental Law ...
The Stream - Circle of Blue
The loophole was introduced in 2009. In 2019, one water firm, Southern Water, was discovered to have reported 124 “no flows” in 2017 and was ordered to pay roughly $163 million in rebates. From 2021 to 2023, across 120,000 samples taken at sewage facilities across England, some 5,000 were “no flows.”. — Christian Thorsberg, Interim ...
Infographic: America's Septic Systems - Circle of Blue
Oct 16, 2015 · Infographic: America’s Septic Systems. Nearly one-fifth of U.S. households are not connected to a public sewer. More than 21 million households in the United States use septic systems — not a public sewer — to trap and filter their toilet waste. The underground tanks are most common in rural areas, especially in New England and the Deep ...
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Circle of Blue unites classic journalism, data literacy and transformative connectivity. Its visionary work across the Great Lakes, U.S., China, Australia, Mexico, India and the Middle East earned the Rockefeller Centennial Innovation Award. Circle of Blue meets the demand for information and collaboration in the challenge of the century: water.
Explainer: Who regulates U.S. drinking water, and how?
Sep 30, 2020 · The act authorized the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the first time to set national standards for contaminants in drinking water. The EPA has since developed standards for 91 contaminants, a medley of undesirable intruders that range from arsenic and nitrate to lead, copper and volatile organic chemicals like benzene.