In the last 150 years, prospectors and energy companies have drilled as many as 12 million holes across the United States in search of oil and gas. Many of those holes were plugged after they dried up. But hundreds of thousands were simply abandoned and forgotten, often leaving no records of their existence. Government reports [...]

Are the POM Wonderful owners basking in the underground waters of California? With 56.66 percent ownership of Kern Water Bank—the largest aquifer in the world—the answer is “Yes.”  Kern Water Bank is a 32-acre underground water storage facility—twice the size of Hetch Hetchy. The Department of Water Resources built it to provide public water with [...]

Over the years the Japanese have been going on annual dolphin hunts. The Japanese have issued over 23,000 dolphin hunting permits each year. This is giving permission to hunters to kill thousands of dolphins in the six month period from September to March.  The way these dolphins are being killed is brutal and inhumane. The [...]

Pavillion, Wyoming is a small town where the skies are the blue, the grass is green and the water is contaminated. Pavillion is home to multiple gas drilling sites owned and run by a company called Encana. In 2008, Pavillion residents first began complaining “about foul smells, illness and discolored water.” The government ignored their [...]

Due to lack of financing, Mexican farmers are unable to replace aging irrigation systems that are water inefficient. Meanwhile, a global analysis survey discloses that 3.4 billion people, 80 percent of the earth’s population, is at risk of water insecurity.  The way water is used and mismanaged in the west contributes to a culture unaware [...]

A global analysis suggests that 80% of the world’s population occupy areas where the fresh water supply is insecure. The main issue is both scarcity and pollution of water. At least 3.4 billion people are the ones facing water scarcity.  Conservation of water for people through reservoirs and dams can work for people but not [...]

California’s most powerful business interests have positioned themselves to pull off the most brazen water heist in American history, seizing control over much of Northern California’s water supplies and turn water into a private asset.  Westlands Water District is trying to control the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta by selling the public on an aqueduct system called the [...]

Tar sands crude is causing massive environmental degradation in Canada and results in significantly more greenhouse gas emissions claims environmental and native groups who  are challenging U.S. State Department issuance of a permit for a multibillion-dollar pipeline. The US State Department issued a Presidential Permit to Enbridge Energy, Ltd. for the Alberta Clipper - a 1,000-mile/1,607-kilometer crude oil pipeline that will run between Hardisty, [...]

Clean water is one of the most important needs of our bodies; so it is a sad fact that clean drinking water can no longer be a guarantee, if it ever was. Most tap water in the United States today is not safe for drinking, due to the high levels of pollution and/or toxic wastes. [...]

The rising levels of the Nile Delta are beginning to endanger many of the crops and food supply in Egypt. Most of Egypt’s 80 million people are crammed into the fertile landscape, where the Nile ends its epic journey half the length of Africa, and fans out into a series of tributaries and lakes, before [...]