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Fight the attempt to kill the Clean Water Rule

By Rebecca Wodder / On May 17th, 2017
In his February address to Congress, President Donald Trump promised clean water for all Americans. Why, then, is his administration intent on dismantling protections that cover a third of the nation's drinking water?
Photo credit: Fountain by Flickr.com user Nicola

Mexico: A Vital Water Partner

By John Fleck / On February 8th, 2017
The last decade has seen a remarkable shift to the better in the relationship between the United States and Mexico over their shared water resources. But that positive turn is now under threat as the change in U.S. administration imposes an unexpected “reset” in the relationship between the two nations.
Credit: Kennedy Warne

Why current disaster planning doesn’t cut it, and what we can do instead

By Laurie Mazur / On October 4th, 2016
We must snap out of our collective climate denial, and accept that the future will not be like the past. Only then can we protect ourselves from the floods (and the tornadoes, droughts, wildfires, heatwaves, and storm surges) to come—and build a resilient future for all.

Reflections on Water Wrongs

By Rebecca Wodder / On August 30th, 2016
To build resilience to twenty-first century challenges, a transformational water ethic must not only respect the water rights of nature, but also the water rights of people, especially the most vulnerable among us.

Q&A with John Fleck

By Katharine Sucher / On August 29th, 2016
Read a Q&A with John Fleck, author of Water is for Fighting Over...and Other Myths about Water in the West.

A Community Approach to Climate Resilience

By Rebecca Wodder / On July 28th, 2016
How to accumulate and leverage social capital to achieve healthy freshwater ecosystems, green infrastructure improvements, and triple-bottom-line benefits.

My book is now a thing that exists in the physical world

By John Fleck / On July 26th, 2016
There was a weird moment this afternoon when I was writing something and needed to dig out a reference from my book. (I do this a lot. It’s all there, the book has a lot of footnotes.) For a split second I started to follow the usual path on my hard drive to the final page proofs…. Click…. Pause….

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