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How much water does big dairy use?

Twilight Greenaway - Civil Eats
Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts (Getty Images)

Infrastructure as culture war flexing?

Jake Bittle - Grist
Growth of trees in drought crisis (Getty Images/R_Tee)

"Flash droughts" threaten the Midwest

Diana Kruzman - Grist
The Sierra Nevada Mountains as seen from the east, California. (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

California water supplies threatened

Roger Bales - The Conversation
Pakistani soldiers check the documents of stranded Afghan nationals wanting to return to Afghanistan at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border crossing point in Chaman on August 15, 2021, after the Taliban took control of the Afghan border town in a rapid offensive across the country. (AFP via Getty Images)

Child marriages fueled by climate change

Ruchi Kumar - Undark
Juniper tree trunk in Sedona, AZ (Getty Images/Laurie Drake)

Why trees are dying of thirst

Daniel Johnson, Raquel Partelli Feltrin - The Conversation
Flames rise near homes during the Blue Ridge Fire on October 27, 2020 in Chino Hills, California. Strong Santa Ana Winds gusting to more than 90 miles per hour have driven the Blue Ridge Fire and Silverado Fire across thousands of acres, grounding firefighting aircraft, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee, and gravely injuring two firefighters. More than 8,200 wildfires have burned across a record 4 million-plus acres so far this year, more than double the previous record. (David McNew/Getty Images)

Scientists urge US to skip the fireworks

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Pyrotechnicians prepare for a 4th of July fireworks show (David Greedy/Getty Images)

Scientists: Skip fireworks this July 4th

Jennifer Balch, Alexander L. Metcalf, Dave McWethy, Philip Higuera - The Conversation
The sun sets behind power lines in Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images)

West faces drought, "climate emergency"

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
Recycled water drips out of a nozzle at the Ironhouse Sanitation District residential recycled water fill station on May 20, 2021 in San Francisco, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Half of Calif. is in "extreme drought"

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
The Sierra Nevada Mountains as seen from the east, California. (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Western US: a hotspot for snow droughts

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
A water main manhole cover in a street in Santa Fe, New Mexico. (Robert Alexander/Getty Images)

Southwest's race against climate clock

Laura Paskus - The Slick
Carolyn Phinney stands in the field at CoCo San Sustainable Farm. (Cirrus Wood / Civil Eats)

Is farming with reclaimed water needed?

Cirrus Wood - Civil Eats
A water main manhole cover in a street in Santa Fe, New Mexico. (Robert Alexander/Getty Images)

Thirsty future for the American West

Alexandra Tempus - FairWarning
FILE - In this file photo taken July 16, 2014, Christian Oggenfuss stands near solar panels on top of the living roof at the Odette Estate winery in Napa, Calif. A new estimate from the U.S. government shows that California met about half of the state's electricity demand for three hours on March 11, 2017--the state's goal is for 50 percent of all electricity to come from renewable sources by 2030. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) (AP)

California farmers turn to solar farming

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
FILE - In this July 28, 2014, file photo, lightning strikes over Lake Mead near Hoover Dam that impounds Colorado River water at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Arizona. President Donald Trump on Tuesday, April 16, 2019, signed a plan to cut back on the use of water from the Colorado River, which serves 40 million people in the U.S. West. (AP Photo/John Locher, File) (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

States buy time with Colorado River plan

Brad Udall, Douglas Kenney, John Fleck - The Conversation
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California overdue for major earthquake?

Richard Aster - The Conversation
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75% of California is in drought — again

Nicole Karlis
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Food waste makes soil healthier

Matthew Wallenstein, Cynthia Kallenbach, Peter Olayemi - The Conversation
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-578401p1.html'>Sean Pavone</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

The water waster dater's dilemma

Eve Andrews - Grist
FILE - This May 18, 2015 file photo shows irrigation pipes along a dry irrigation canal on a field near Stockton, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) (AP)

Drought leaves West out to dry

Eric Holthaus - Grist
In 2014, Mexican federal police fly over the Balsas River near the Pacific port of Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico. (AP Photo/Eduardo Castillo)

Mexico playing politics with its water

Veronica Herrera - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Jim Mone)

Cape Town: A city without water

Robin Scher - Alternet
FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2014 file photo, a cracked section of roadway is shown in the Carneros district of Napa, Calif., following an earthquake. Emerging data on last month’s Northern California earthquake is explaining why the city of Napa suffered so much of the damage. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) (AP)

Major earthquake overdue

Richard Aster - The Conversation
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