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Posted inEditor's Pick

‘A Profound Betrayal of Trust’: Why Jackson’s Water System Is Broken

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands April 7, 2021October 19, 2022

“How a shrinking city, aging infrastructure and racism left thousands of Jacksonians without water for weeks.”

Posted inBooks, Culture, Nonfiction, Story

American Green

by Longreads July 18, 2019October 19, 2022

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

Posted inBusiness, Current Events, Food, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature

Arizona’s Aquifers Are a Laboratory of Our Dry Future

by Aaron Gilbreath July 23, 2018October 19, 2022

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

Posted inProfiles & Interviews, Story, Uncategorized

Drought In Post-Apartheid Cape Town: An Interview with Eve Fairbanks

by Aaron Gilbreath June 11, 2018October 19, 2022

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

Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature

Could South Africa’s Drought Help Deconstruct the Divisions of Apartheid?

by Aaron Gilbreath June 7, 2018October 19, 2022

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

Posted inBusiness & Tech, Current Events, Nonfiction, profile, Quotes

The Couple Who Turned a California Desert Into a Multi-Billion Dollar Snack Empire

by Aaron Gilbreath February 5, 2018October 19, 2022

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

Posted inBusiness & Tech, Nonfiction, Quotes

Nestlé Is Sucking the World’s Aquifers Dry

by Aaron Gilbreath October 4, 2017October 19, 2022

The multinational corporation is gradually privatizing a natural resource.

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Quotes

Stephen Rodrick Returns Home to Flint

by heymarkarms January 26, 2016October 19, 2022

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 […]

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