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A Colorado city has been battling for decades to use its own water
Lawsuits, protests and fierce disputes over who controls water in the parched American West have held up a crucial pipeline.
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How state regulators allowed a fading West Texas Town to go over four years without safe drinking water
The Texas attorney general finally filed suit last year, but some residents in Toyah say the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality was “negligent” and want to know what took so long.
Mississippi water crisis triggers blame game
The city, state and Biden administration scrambled to address the emergency that has left the city of 150,000 people without safe drinking water.
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Wildfire threatens Cheyenne water supply
The Mullen Fire, which has spread through more than 147,000 acres of Colorado and Wyoming forest in the past two weeks, reached the southern edge of the main drinking water source for Cheyenne, the Wyoming capital.
Clean water history explored on 'In Deep' podcast
The eight-episode series also looks at water and sewage treatment and the history of such diseases as cholera.
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Water utility collaborates with farmers to clean up pollution
NEW Water, a utility in northwest Wisconsin, wanted to stop phosphorus pollution at its source.
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Financial troubles jeopardize drinking water supply in Zimbabwe capital
The main drinking water plant for Harare resumed treating water after a two-day shutdown last week that exacerbated shortages in a capital city that is already reeling from drought.
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