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Pollution, precipitation, floods: close encounters with the elixir of life.

Unsafe to drink: Wildfires threaten rural towns with tainted water

11.24.2020
Rachel Becker
Farmers are depleting the Ogallala Aquifer because the government pays them to do it
11.19.2020
by Matthew R Sanderson + Burke Griggs + Jacob A. Miller
Trump spent four years gutting food and farm protections. Here’s what we predict will be reversed on day one of Biden’s term.
11.12.2020
by H. Claire Brown + Jessica Fu + Sam Bloch
The U.S. Army Corps opened up a controversial fish farm proposal for public comment. Just one problem: It directed people to a faulty email.
10.29.2020
by Jessica Fu
Largest ever fine for water pollution goes to a CAFO—and it’s a horse track in New Orleans
10.08.2020
by Sam Bloch
Gulf fishers brace for a “dead zone” the size of Connecticut and Delaware
06.10.2020
by Sam Bloch
Sweetgreen and Chipotle will remove “forever chemicals” from their bowls by the end of 2020
03.16.2020
by Joe Fassler
Water is life. It’s also a battle. So what does the future hold for California?
03.06.2020
by Alastair Bland
Lawmakers open groundwater fight against bottled water companies
02.12.2020
by Alex Brown