4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (774+ words) San Joaquin Valley gets a roadmap for closing its water gap Smart Water Magazine The Water Blueprint for the San Joaquin Valley and the California Water Institute at Fresno State have released the Unified Water Plan for the San Joaquin…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (296+ words) Smart Water Magazine The World Bank Group has announced a US$186 million loan to strengthen water security and climate resilience in Paraná, one of Brazil’s most agriculturally productive states. Agribusiness generates close to a third of Paraná’s economic output and…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (394+ words) Smart Water Magazine By joining the UN Sustainable Blue Economy Finance Principles, FAB is aligning its financing activities with a globally recognised framework that promotes the sustainable use of water resources and encourages financial institutions to integrate water related risks…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (625+ words) Smart Water Magazine The California State Water Resources Control Board has released a revised draft water right decision and draft permit for the proposed Sites Reservoir, moving the state’s largest reservoir project in more than five decades a step closer…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (745+ words) Smart Water Magazine Wastewater treatment is responsible for around 1.6% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, some 0.77 gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent per year, according to estimates from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Within this total, the sector accounts for between…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (690+ words) A new USGS study finds that across much of the United States, streamflow has been rising while groundwater levels keep falling, and only one way of slicing the map can make sense of why. For decades, hydrologists have treated groundwater…...

3+ week, 1+ hour ago   (703+ words) The study’s methodological contribution lies not in simply detecting salt in rivers, which had already been documented in previous research on basins such as the Llobregat in Spain, where salinisation has been linked to potash mining, but in first establishing…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (188+ words) The City of Toronto has retained GHD to develop a greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation strategy for Toronto Water, supporting the city’s target of achieving net-zero emissions by 2040. The strategy will consolidate existing GHG reduction initiatives, establish targets aligned with the…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (341+ words) Lake Mead and Lake Powell fell to their lowest levels on record shortly after Reclamation released its ten-year Colorado River plan, which spares Upper Basin states while imposing mandatory cuts on Arizona, Nevada and California. Lake Mead, record low, 7 August…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (283+ words) Sentinel-2 satellite images, taken between August 1 and 3 and published by the EU Space Support Office, show the same pattern in the other three basins: exposed sandbanks and gravel beds in the Loire near Saumur, the Po near Cremona, and the…...