Discover the implications of Trump's proposed cuts to infrastructure funding for drinking water and sewer systems.

The Trump administration proposed this month to allow coal-fired power plants to pour more climate-changing gases into the atmosphere. The Environmental Protection Agency also wants to shred 35 years ...

Communities in southern Ecuador are used to water scarcity and uncertain rainfall. They live where two ocean currents converge, a unique location wherein yearly rainfall can range from just 12 inches ...

Children in an informal settlement in Kabul, in a photo from 2013, operate a hand pump. Photo © EU – EC/ECHO/Pierre Prakash Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan and ...

And lastly, President Trump celebrates the ocean’s economic potential. “This National Ocean Month, my Administration renews its resolve to usher in a new and radiant golden age both at home and at sea ...

A dust cloud silhouettes a horse in pastures along the Rio Grande, in Sandoval County, New Mexico. Drought and climate change have created a tinderbox in the American West for destructive wildfires.

Atop one of the world’s tallest freshwater sand dunes in northern Michigan’s Benzie County there’s a place to marvel–dawn or dusk–at the magnificence of the Lake Michigan shoreline. The view ...

And lastly, President Trump rescinds an agreement on Columbia River hydropower operations. “USDA and EPA have never been more aligned on the need for more American grown biofuels…America’s national ...

Brett writes about agriculture, energy, infrastructure, and the politics and economics of water in the United States for Circle of Blue. Brett also writes the Federal Water Tap, Circle of Blue’s ...