Mining made this US tribal area a toxic wasteland. This Indigenous nation brought it back to life The Quapaw Nation is the only US Native community to carry out a cleanup of one of the country’s worst sites of environmental contamination

Excellent piece in The Guardian this past Sunday, providing an update on the past decade of #industrialcleanup and #soilremediation in NE Oklahoma, under the strwardship of the Quapaw Nation

#envhist
#PeoplesHistory
#InCorporationsWeTrust
#stripmining
#publichealth
#waterpolitics
#BloodLeadLevels

"The region hosts around 10% of all known plant species on Earth and plays a key role in feeding Andean wetlands that supply water to millions."
#AmazonBiome
#BiodiversityConservation
#BelémDeclaration
#WaterPolitics
#OldGrowthForests
(with information from Econews / Ecoticias)

The Great Olympic lie: untold story of Winter Games’ huge environmental impact Rivers drained dry to create artificial snow, a forest cut down for the bobsleigh track – IOC’s claims to prioritise sustainability at Milano Cortina exposed

Some 2.3 million cubic metres of artificial snow to compensate for 3.6C rise in average February temperatures in Cortina over the past 20 years
"...water taken from springs, torrents, rivers, reservoirs, drinking water, even groundwater."

#envhist
#waterpolitics

www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

Water is released from Scott Dam, sending a powerful plume of white spray into the river below as water cascades down the concrete face of the dam under a clear blue sky.

💧 Mendocino County supervisors rejected a proposal to remove Supervisor Madeline Cline from a water commission after debate over her attendance at an agriculture conference tied to the Potter Valley Project.

mendovoice.com/2026/02/coun...

#MendocinoCounty #WaterPolitics #PotterValley #Politics

Cherokee Nation awarded nearly $773,000 for Illinois River Watershed conservation planning

Riparian Restoration Program to reduce "sediment loading," euphemism for chicken-shit run-off from poultry-feeding operations (PFOs), aka CAFOs upstream
#waterpolitics
#wetlands #stewardship
#ecosystemrecovery
#FirstNations
#PublicRecreationArea
#envhist
#BigAg
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The Sixth Canal revives extractive development—diverting Indus water, empowering corporations, and weakening Pakistan’s sovereignty.
By Shameer Ahmed

Read more: thefridaytimes.com/19-Jan-2026/...

#WaterPolitics #ClimateJustice #FoodSovereignty #IndusRiver #PoliticalEconomy #Agriculture

The Sixth Canal: Economic Dependence And Elite Capture In The Green Pakistan Initiative The initiative facilitates the acquisition of land and water by Gulf states, effectively outsourcing their food production requirements to Pakistan’s

Pakistan’s Sixth Canal is framed as food security, but in reality it deepens ecological harm, elite capture, and geopolitical dependence.
By Shameer Ahmed

Read more: www.thefridaytimes.com/19-Jan-2026/...

#WaterPolitics #ClimateJustice #FoodSovereignty #IndusRiver #PoliticalEconomy #Agriculture

Hydro-Political Crisis - Stratheia India’s suspension of the IWT triggers a hydro-political crisis, challenging international law and threatening South Asian stability.

India’s IWT abeyance challenges international treaty law and threatens water security for over 200 million people downstream.
#InternationalLaw #WaterPolitics #HumanSecurity
stratheia.com/hydro-politi...

Areas losing freshwater have greatly expanded over the past 20 years.
#waterpolitics
#globalwarming
#climatechange
#CadillacDesert

Court Orders Tyson Foods and Poultry Giants to Fund 30-Year Illinois River Watershed Cleanup - Oklahoma Farm Report In a landmark ruling issued Friday, December 19, 2025, U.S. District Judge Gregory Frizzell entered a judgment against several major poultry integrators, finding them liable for pollution in the Illin...

Phosphorus runoff from poultry waste applied to land upstream has caused significant injury to the Illinois River, in Oklahoma, including the eutrophication of #LakeTenkillerOK

#WaterPolitics
#PublicRecreationArea
#EnvironmentalRemediation
#envhist
#BigAg

www.oklahomafarmreport.com/okfr/2025/12...

China Advances Vast Himalayan Hydropower Project as Regional and Environmental Questions Mount Beijing, China (Journos News) - China has begun building what is expected to become the world’s most powerful hydropower system

China is building a record-breaking hydropower system in the Himalayas, promising clean energy while raising environmental and regional concerns across South Asia.

#ChinaHydropower #HimalayanRivers #CleanEnergyShift #AsiaPacific #WaterPolitics

Politics, law and reality collide in pursuit of relief on Peninsula water woes. Read the full article on Monterey County Now.

Politics, law and reality collide in pursuit of relief on Peninsula water woes. #montereypeninsula #watercrisis #californiaamericanwater #desalination #waterpolitics #legalbattle #purewatermonterey #watersupply #carmelriver #watermeters

'We the People, in order to form a more perfect water district ...' revised edition Here's a great way to spend the holiday season. Start organizing to oust the water plutocrats, reform state government & overthrow The Fascist Beast.

#waterwars #waterpolitics #environmentaljustice #climatejustice Here's a great way to spend the holiday season. Stop supporting Trump’s racist attacks on immigrants. Organize to oust the water plutocrats, reform state government & overthrow The Fascist Beast.
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The Liquid Divide : Part 1 The Water Line. Trump, Carney, and the Politics of Liquid Power Across continents, the world’s thirst for freshwater is testing borders, alliances, and the limits of diplomacy. Water is no longer a quiet environmental concern; it is the defining geopolitical resource of the twenty-first century.

💧 Dive into "The Liquid Divide: Part 1" on Water Matters! Discover how water is reshaping global power. 🌍💦 Read more: vist.ly/4cmvs #WaterPolitics #GlobalIssues

The Liquid Divide : Part 1 The Water Line. Trump, Carney, and the Politics of Liquid Power Across continents, the world’s thirst for freshwater is testing borders, alliances, and the limits of diplomacy. Water is no longer a quiet environmental concern; it is the defining geopolitical resou...

💧 Dive into "The Liquid Divide: Part 1" on Water Matters! Discover how water is reshaping global power. 🌍💦 Read more: www.watermatters.life/p/the-liquid... #WaterPolitics #GlobalIssues
www.watermatters.life/p/the-liquid...

Afghanistan’s Qosh Tepa Canal Raises Water Security Fears - The Times Of Central Asia Water has long been one of Central Asia’s most contested resources, shaping agriculture, energy policy, and diplomacy across the region. Recently,

Afghanistan’s Qosh Tepa Canal nears second-phase completion, alarming Central Asian neighbors over Amu Darya water security timesca.com/afghanistans... #Afghanistan #WaterSecurity #CentralAsia #AmuDarya #QoshTepaCanal #WaterPolitics

A Rebuttal to "Turning Water Terror into Power" - Stratheia Pakistan’s water crisis is less about building dams and more about overcoming entrenched political and legal barriers.

Kalabagh Dam could have transformed Pakistan’s energy and water security. Instead, politics buried progress, and today the costs of inaction are becoming painfully clear.
#KalabaghDam #WaterPolitics #WaterCrisis
stratheia.com/a-rebuttal-t...

Grand Calumet River delivers toxic load to Lake Michigan The Grand Calumet River system winds for 13 miles through a Northwest Indiana industrial landscape that could almost be described as post-apocalyptic.

Apparently not going too well for that river. Here's an update on the Calumet, dated 2013, a quarter century after the above photo

#waterpolitics
#envhist
#IndustrialDisease
#Riverkeeper

www.wbez.org/news/2013/01...

Turning Water Terror into Water Power - Stratheia Pakistan’s water paradox demands bold solutions, reservoirs and junction dams can turn floods and droughts into economic strength.

Water has been weaponized against Pakistan. Smart storage solutions can neutralize this threat and secure sovereignty.
#Floods #Droughts #WaterPolitics
stratheia.com/turning-wate...

The Sutlej’s Trials: Climate, Politics And The Resilience Of Pakistan’s Farmers The Sutlej reveals Pakistan’s climate fragility and local resilience, as farmers and districts endure drought, deluge and upstream water politics

In Pakpattan, farmers and officials battle floods and droughts, showing resilience against climate change and cross-border water politics
By Aamer Hayat Bhandara

Read more: thefridaytimes.com/21-Aug-2025/...

#SutlejRiver #PakistanFloods #climatechange #resilience #waterpolitics #Pakpattan #Farmers

MWD update: 3 GM candidates left sources say - but who really wins? The appointment of MWD’s next general manager will test the integrity of the agency and California’s water policy framework.

#socalwaterwars #waterwars #waterpolitics #waterconservation #metropolitanwaterdistrict socalwaterwars.substack.com/p/mwd-update...

striking image: "Each and every year, 11 million metric tons of plastics enter our oceans. That's over a garbage truck's worth of plastic entering our ocean every single minute." -from the transcript
#ThrowAwaySociety
#waterpolitics
#envhist
#PBSNewsHour

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHSC...

"The trouble begins in a big tributary, the Missouri River. In the mid-20th century, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built six major dams there..." (from the transcript)

#waterpolitics #DamNation #USACE #envhist #LifeontheMississippi #MississippiDelta #PBSNewsHour

www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9SU...

Terminal Flows From the Great Basin, Jackson Frishman ponders a West when water runs out

Apropos, here's an old piece of mine on the topic that I'm still proud of:
mountainjournal.org/when-the-wes...
#westernwater #waterpolitics #drought

Who’s in Charge of the Flow? Terry Torgerson’s latest cartoon captures the confusion of Eel River water as it faces a wall of agencies and organizations—asking the age-old question: who’s really in charge of where the water goes?

Who’s in Charge of the Flow? kymkemp.com/2025/07/28/whos-in-charg... #EelRiver #WaterPolitics #Cartoon #DamRemoval #WaterDiversion #CaliforniaWater #TorgersonCartoon #EnvironmentalPolicy

Three types of drought – and why there’s no such thing as a global water crisis
#Water #ClimateChange #Drought #WaterCrisis #Africa #Chile #UK #ClimateJustice #GlobalSouth #WaterRights #EnvironmentalJustice #WaterPolitics #Sustainability
the-14.com/three-types-...

🆕#WorkingPaper: “Privatisation and Remunicipalisation of Urban Water in Catalonia: Between Monopolisation, State and the Commons” by Germà Bel and @joelliambuehler.bsky.social.

Read the full text👉🏻https://f.mtr.cool/mcjdwutubh    

#EconSky #Privatization #WaterPolitics #GovernmentMonopolies

The Helmand Water Dispute Between Iran and Afghanistan - Stratheia Afghanistan and Iran face escalating tensions over Helmand River water rights, with history, drought, and politics fueling conflict.

“Oil for Water”, Ghani’s bold demand highlights how water diplomacy has turned transactional. Helmand River needs cooperation, not confrontation.
#AfghanIran #WaterPolitics #HelmandRiver
stratheia.com/the-helmand-...

Oklahoma's loophole: How Tyson’s water use goes unchecked - Investigate Midwest As Jill Trapp steered her pickup truck down the red dirt roads of southeast Oklahoma, she raised a hand to greet a passing neighbor — a calf roper who once made it to the National Finals Rodeo.  She d...

Poultry Feeding Operations (PFOs): rows of long, gray, windowless chicken houses, each longer than two football fields

#WaterPolitics #GroundwaterMining #AntlersAquifer
#CAFO #IndustrialFood #IndustrialEaters #IndustrialDisease
#McCurtainCountyOK #SEOklahoma

investigatemidwest.org/2025/06/11/o...

Although this piece on #waterpolitics is #worthwatching, the reporter should now go & see how the water from the #ColoradoRiver is so salty from runoff by the time it gets to Mexico, that it is almost unusable.

#PBSnewshour #treatyobligations #CadillacDesert #envhist

m.youtube.com/watch?v=hWYf...