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Enough fresh water is lost from continents each year to meet the needs of 280 million people. Here's how we can combat that.

Earth's continents are losing 4 Olympic swimming pools' worth of fresh water every second, with dire consequences for jobs, food security and water availability.

LiveScience

'Like a creeping mold that's spreading across the landscape': Separate dry areas around the world are merging into 'mega-drying' regions at an alarming rate, study finds

Unchecked groundwater extraction and climate change have dried continents significantly over the past 22 years, with 101 countries now losing fresh water to the ocean, research reveals.

LiveScience

Groundwater in the Colorado River basin won't run out — but eventually we won’t be able to get at it, scientists warn

The Colorado River basin has lost a Lake Mead’s worth of water in the last 20 years — and scientists say we’re passing a "critical point" where pumping groundwater will become too expensive.

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In the Arizona desert, a farm raising fish raises questions about water use

In landlocked Arizona, where the Colorado River crisis has put water use under a microscope, a new inland desert fish farm is growing barramundi — a tropical species native to Australia

The Independent UK

Colorado River basin has lost nearly the equivalent of an underground Lake Mead

Reservoir lost 27.8m acre-feet of groundwater in 20 years, study finds, vanishing ‘twice as fast as surface water’

The Guardian - US

Anxious scientists brace for Trump’s climate denialism: ‘We have a target on our backs’

Experts express anxiety – and resilience – as they prepare for president-elect’s potential attacks on climate research

The Guardian - US

The Seine, the romantic lifeblood of Paris, is set to reopen for swimming after 100 years. But its cursed clean-up has become a lesson for future Olympics

“The Seine plays this dualistic role between our Emily in Paris postcard moments and the reality of being a living, working, breathing river,” one expert said.

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Amid conflicts and climate change, UN puts focus on ‘deep trouble’ in water worldwide

For the first time in 46 years, the United Nations convened a global conference on water, creating new impetus for wide-ranging efforts to manage water more sustainably, adapt to worsening droughts and floods with climate change, and accelerate solutions for the estimated 2 billion people around the world who live…

Los Angeles Times

Depletion of groundwater is accelerating in California’s Central Valley, study finds

Scientists have discovered that the pace of groundwater depletion in California’s Central Valley has accelerated dramatically during the drought as heavy agricultural pumping has drawn down aquifer levels to new lows and now threatens to devastate the underground water reserves.

Los Angeles Times

Proposed surf park in California desert is rejected by La Quinta City Council

A developer's proposal to build a surfing lagoon in the Coachella Valley desert has been rejected by the city of La Quinta after residents raised concerns about noise, lighting and the resort's substantial water footprint in a time of severe drought.

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