Overuse of groundwater threatens global supplies, according to Nature study
From Yale Environment 360 Irrigation in California's Central Valley. (Photo: Post Carbon Institute) A new study finds that nearly one-quarter of the world’s population lives in regions where water is...
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From Green Right Now Reports Texas Long Horn (Photo: Wikimedia) A visit to West Texas will invariably take you by two common sites, oil and natural gas wells and pastures where Texas’ iconic longhorn...
View ArticleWater: What’s really terrifying
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now This past week, about 300,000 people in West Virginia got to sample what life is like when you can’t just turn on a tap and draw out a stream of clean water for...
View ArticleFracking threatens water supplies in several states; Texas is ‘ground zero,’...
Green Right Now Reports This map cut out shows the intensively drilled Permian Basin in Texas (wells in black) which overlays the Ogallala Aquifer (in red). The Ogallala, a major source of drinking and...
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