The homeowners also say they suffered physical and emotional damage when they lost their Bellevue home in the January landslide. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/eastside/family-of-collapsed-bellevue-home-files-5m-claim-against-city-alleging-failure-to-warn-and-replace-aging-water-pipe/ Continue reading Family of collapsed Bellevue home files $5M claim against city, alleging failure to warn and replace aging water pipe

IPCC Climate Report: Six Key Findings for Water – Circle of Blue Continue reading IPCC Climate Report: Six Key Findings for Water

COP26: A Bold Step Forward for the Water Resilience Agenda – Pacific Institute (pacinst.org) The 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow marked a welcome change in the way water is included in global climate dialogue. Now in the rearview mirror, it’s clear the water agenda received significantly more attention than during previous COPs, and that resilience and adaptation are gaining powerful traction alongside climate mitigation. Continue reading COP26: A Bold Step Forward for the Water Resilience Agenda

Far more potent than oil or gold, water is a stream of geopolitical force that runs deep, feeding crops and building nations Water is a stream of geopolitical force through history | Aeon Essays The virtual river starts anywhere water feeds agriculture. But from there, physical water vanishes, replaced by a flow of crops that carry only the memory of the water used to produce them. Crops then travel along the shipping lanes of the global trade system, eventually displacing the water that would have otherwise been used to grow them locally. Thus, water flows from source to destination ‘embedded’ … Continue reading The power of water