Tag: water
Flooding from Hurricane Harvey causes a host of public health concerns
Neil S. Grigg, Colorado State University
The historic rainfall dumped by Hurricane Harvey has already led to deaths by drownings and the destruction of many...
Is your drinking water safe? Here’s how you can find out
Susan Boser, Pennsylvania State University and Diane Oleson, Pennsylvania State University
America’s drinking water infrastructure is aging and in serious need of modernization. Pipes are...
Women still carry most of the world’s water
Bethany Caruso, Emory University
Imagine going through your day without access to clean, safe water in your home for drinking, cooking, washing or bathing whenever...
Will Trump’s cuts inspire more DIY foreign aid?
Susan Appe, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Running on a shoestring budget, Future in Our Hands-USA helps people living almost 7,500...
Should we worry about arsenic in baby cereal and drinking water?
Stuart Shalat, Georgia State University
Even though most people don’t know much about chemicals in general or poisons in particular, virtually everyone knows that arsenic...
How much has global warming worsened California’s drought? Now…
How much has global warming worsened California's drought? Now we have a number
Park Williams, Columbia University
With each passing year, human-caused global warming bullies California...
In a water-scarce West of the future, who will be hit...
Lauren Foster
, Colorado School of Mines
This article is part of The Conversation’s series on drought. You can read the rest of the series here.
Despite...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s ‘God Squad’ pits energy vs. endangered species, but it’s a...
Dan Salas, University of Illinois Chicago
There’s a well-worn debate in U.S. politics that goes something like this: Would...
