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Reinaldo Luzco fills two tanks with river water. The well he relied on for potable water dried up three years ago, and now he’s sometimes forced to collect drinking water from a river that naturally contains arsenic.

Green Or Gone environment

A Lithium Mining Company Is Drying Up Argentine Town’s Water Supply

by Lucila Pellettieri November 14, 2024May 24, 2025

Gates control the flow of water into smaller ditches, providing irrigators with water to flood their land during the growing season.

Green climate change

The ‘Acequias’ Of New Mexico, An Ancient Weapon Against Drought Is At Risk

by Lourdes Medrano October 12, 2024May 24, 2025

Cloud Seeding, Miracle Rainmaker Or Ecological Menace?

Cloud Seeding, Miracle Rainmaker Or Ecological Menace?

by Anne Feitz September 9, 2024May 24, 2025

Parched For The Course? Uproar In Spain As Golf Expands In Drought-Stricken South

Green environment

Parched For The Course? Uproar In Spain As Golf Expands In Drought-Stricken South

by Dani Domínguez August 30, 2024May 24, 2025

Photo of a young girl walking through rain water at a camp in Gaza

Israel-Palestine War gaza

Squalor Of War: Gazans Without Bathrooms, Mired In Sewage, Spreading Disease

by Thaer Abu Aoun February 5, 2024May 24, 2025

Stinkin’ Sunset? A Mexican Coastal Paradise Has A Major Sanitation Problem

Green pollution

Stinkin’ Sunset? A Mexican Coastal Paradise Has A Major Sanitation Problem

by Worldcrunch November 19, 2023May 21, 2025

Photo of a man and his goats walking on a dried out river in Afghanistan

Green Or Gone politics

Confronting Climate Change And The Taliban In Afghanistan

by Worldcrunch March 10, 2023May 21, 2025

In Medellin, Colombia

El Nino Forces Water Rationing In Medellin

by Bertrand Hauger February 17, 2016May 22, 2025

Eyes on the U.S.united states

California Fire Threatens Yosemite And San Francisco Water Supplies

by Lucille Fonteny August 26, 2013May 23, 2025