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Deprived of water, Mexican villagers are taking on big avocado growers

After enduring years of drought and ‘invading’ fruit farmers in Mexico, these locals are taking matters into their own hands.

Earth News

UN marks World Water Day as droughts plague the globe

World Water Day, held on 22 March every year since 1993, is an annual United Nations Observance focusing on the importance of freshwater - yet many parts of the world, including Catalonia, Spain, are observing their worst droughts in decades.

Earth News

Palestine has asked the UN to look into ‘environmental crimes’ in Gaza

Human remains, asbestos and unexploded munitions: there will be huge challenges to conducting field-based assessment work in Gaza.

Earth News

Outrage as Commission accused of shelving water resilience plan

The European Commission has taken a water resilience intiative, an EU response to increasingly frequent episodes of drought and flooding, off its agenda for the coming months, sparking fears that it has once again caved in to an anti-green backlash ahead of EU elections.

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Climate

Spanish citizens feel ‘abandoned’ after 10 months without clean water

Andalucía residents are afraid to wash their children with the tap water, and say even dogs refuse to drink it.

Earth News

Half of the drinking water in this country is poisoned with arsenic

As more saltwater and freshwater mixes, arsenic leaching could cause health issues for several other countries too, researchers warn.

Israel

Netanyahu: Israel paying 'heavy price' for war

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his side have paid a "heavy price" for the war in Gaza; following one of its deadliest weekends of fighting so far.

Croatia

Croatia recalls Coca-Cola drinks following cases of poisonings

Victims of the allegedly tainted drinks include a 19-year-old who was hospitalised with damage to the digestive tract.

Earth News

Amazon River drought is exposing ancient rocks with human faces

Record low river levels led to the strange discovery in Brazil, where public authorities are delivering food to isolated residents.

Earth News

Toxic forever chemicals found in almost half of Swiss groundwater

Groundwater provides 80 per cent of Switzerland's drinking water.

Ecotech

‘Yuck factor’ aside, what does beer made from shower water taste like?

‘It tastes like a nice, crisp, Kölsch style ale. You'd have no idea the source of the water’

Home

This company’s low carbon tech is turning seawater into drinking water

Global demand for drinkable water is on the rise. This Norwegian company is responding by desalinating the sea into clean, drinkable water.

Climate

Arizona’s homeless fear burns as outside surfaces heat up to 82C

Homeless people are some of the most vulnerable to death during a heatwave. This what it's like living in an encampment in Phoenix, Arizona.

Smart Health

Medical residue in water: what are the impacts and solutions?

In partnership with The European Commission

Taking a painkiller to cure a headache might seem quite harmless. But many of the medicines we take can have far-reaching impacts on the environment, wildlife and potentially our own health.

Climate Now

Climate Now debate: What's happening to the water cycle?

Extreme weather events are making water a top priority in Europe. How is climate change affecting the water cycle on the continent?

Earth News

Rich people's swimming pools are driving city water shortages

Social inequalities are driving urban water shortages at least as much as climate change or population growth.

Europe Decoded

Climate change & human activity endangering Malta's water supply

The central Mediterranean archipelago is predicted to lose 16% of its groundwater through climate change and rising sea levels over the next 80 years.

Climate

How rising sea levels are affecting India's water supplies

People can no longer depend on ponds and wells for the water they need to drink, cook and wash.

Nature

Woman runs 200 marathons in a year to spotlight the water crisis

‘When I set out to run, I thought I was going to see a problem and what I found was a catastrophe.’

Scenes

Meet the Venezuelan engineers pumping clean water for villagers

In partnership with Media City

Our idea is to attack the existing problems of drinking water consumption and provide solutions to the communities.