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Environmental News Bits has a new home at http://envnewsbits.wordpress.com/. This site is no longer being updated, although the archives will remain available indefinitely.

Read the full story at Slate. The local environmental club keeps urging me to stop “wasting water” — to take shorter showers, for instance, and to water my lawn less often. But how is it possible to waste water when … Continue reading →

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced that it has issued voluntary information requests to nine natural gas service companies regarding the process known as hydraulic fracturing. The data requested is integral to a broad scientific study now underway … Continue reading →

Read the full post at Triple Pundit. More than 900 million people struggle to find enough clean water every day. Another 2.6 billion don’t have access to basic sanitation. But any faucet can run dry and none are exempt from … Continue reading →

Environmental News Bits will be taking a summer break during the week of August 9. I’ll return you to your regularly scheduled environmental news on Monday, August 16.

Read the full story in The Economist. Finite, vital, much wanted, little understood, water looks unmanageable. But it needn’t be, argues John Grimond.

Read the full story at NPR. Russia’s Lake Baikal, in southern Siberia, is roughly the size of Maryland. It’s home to one-fifth of the world’s freshwater supply and to unique species, including a freshwater seal. The United Nations refers to … Continue reading →

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management is sponsoring a special issue on sustainable technology and engineering management research and practice. Over the past three decades, the topic of sustainability has generated considerable attention in society. Environmental and social concerns intertwined with … Continue reading →

Read the full story in Science News. In the past six years, the irrigation of crops in California’s Central Valley has pulled groundwater from aquifers there at rates that are unsustainable if current trends continue, scientists say. The Central Valley, … Continue reading →

Read the full story in Scientific American. Australia is at the forefront of a global water crisis. Some of the management lessons learned there could help bail out California and other parched regions before they meet the same fate.