Mar 09 Watch 5:46 Water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi highlights ‘dire state’ of city’s infrastructure By John Yang, Courtney Norris, Lynsey Jeffery Much of Mississippi's largest city is beginning its fourth week without safe drinking water coming out of faucets. Jackson residents, about 80 percent of whom are Black, remain under a system-wide order to boil water, and some don't have any… Continue watching
Mar 03 Water crisis continues in Mississippi, weeks after cold snap By Jeff Martin, Leah Willingham, Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press Mississippi's largest city is still struggling with water problems, more than two weeks after winter storms and freezing weather ravaged the system. Continue reading
Nov 22 Watch 4:58 Erin Brockovich on America’s water crisis and why no one is coming to save us By Christopher Booker Erin Brockovich, the environmental activist who shot to prominence after her successful lawsuit against the Pacific Gas & Electric Company in 1993, joins Christopher Booker to discuss her new book “Superman’s Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis And What We… Continue watching
Aug 20 Watch 6:53 6 years after water crisis began, what has changed in Flint — and what hasn’t The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, exposed major health and environmental concerns for residents and prompted new scrutiny of access to clean drinking water in the U.S. But Flint is still grappling with the consequences of its crisis, including financial… Continue watching
Jul 31 Watch 6:59 How scientists are harvesting fog to secure the world’s water supply By John Yang, Sam Lane The global water supply is constantly and increasingly threatened by climate change, overconsumption and poor management, among other forces. In an effort to bolster it, scientists around the world are leveraging familiar scientific principles with modern technology to capture water… Continue watching
May 16 Watch 7:18 How failing infrastructure and climate change leave many South Africans without water By Fred de Sam Lazaro It's been 25 years since South Africa dismantled apartheid, and while political progress has occurred, the young democracy continues to face hurdles. In recent years, extreme drought pushed the country to the brink of disaster, and although rainfall finally mitigated… Continue watching
Mar 09 Watch 4:42 Water costs balloon in cities along the Great Lakes By PBS NewsHour The Great Lakes are an indispensable source of drinking water for more than 48 million people in the U.S. and Canada. But in six large cities on the shorelines, residents are facing a cost crisis. WBEZ reporter Maria Ines Zamudio… Continue watching
Jan 01 Watch 8:02 Water crisis may make Gaza Strip uninhabitable by 2020 By Fred de Sam Lazaro In the Gaza Strip, 97 percent of freshwater is unsuitable for human consumption, and raw sewage pours into the Mediterranean Sea. Facilities for desalinating and treating water function on only a limited basis, as Israel controls the flow of fuel… Continue watching
Dec 20 Watch 8:27 Why Iraq’s biblical paradise is becoming a salty wasteland By Jane Ferguson In addition to recovering and rebuilding after a brutal war with ISIS, Iraq is facing a dire water shortage. Levels in the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers have plummeted, in part because neighboring Turkey built a dam upstream that restricts the… Continue watching
Mar 31 Watch 9:44 Cape Town drought limits people to 13 gallons of water a day Fearing the complete depletion of their water supply amid an extreme drought, officials in South Africa’s second most populous city have limited water consumption to 13 gallons per resident a day. Police are also fining people for watering their lawns… Continue watching