Tag: water crisis

How did the plain green lawn become the central landscaping feature in America, and what is the ecological cost?

After large corporate farmers started growing nuts in one southeastern Arizona, local residents’ wells started going dry. The situation is only getting worse.

United in a common struggle, the drought has leveled the racially divided city’s physical and social barriers in profound ways.

Cape Town’s drought has turned the once green city brown, but can it help unite the rich and poor and black and white?

Taxpayers have helped Stewart and Lynda Resnick turn an irrigated desert into a dangerous and lucrative agricultural gamble.

The multinational corporation is gradually privatizing a natural resource.

The human damage is incalculable. Think of a mother waking in the middle of the night to make formula for her baby girl and unwittingly using liquid death as a mixer. Lead poisoning stunts IQs in children, many of whom in Flint are already traumatized by poverty, arson and rampant gunfire outside their doors. And […]