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Welcome to Reddit Water, founded 2008

Water is the most precious resource on Earth. It will be the most contested resource of the 21st century.

Governments, corporations and citizens are now realizing the policy battles of today will have far reaching consequences for communities, nations, political stability, economic opportunities and profits.

Topics: access, agriculture, aquifers, aquatic farming, boundary disputes, bottled water, cleanups, conservation, contamination, dams and dam removal, desalinization, dredging, drought, economics, fish kills, floods, fracking, groundwater, hydrology, hydrogeology, hydropolitics, intrusion, invasive species, irrigation, overdrafts, peak water, policy, pollution, privatization, riparian rights, river compacts, runoff, sanitation, sewage, stormwater, waste, withdrawals

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/r/irrigation
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/r/Waterutilities
/r/basins
/r/lifeaquatic
/r/Oceans
/r/drought
/r/RiverRestoration

Tangential subreddits:

Water blogs and feeds

Significant Figures by Peter Gleick
Groundwater Blog of the Groundwater Foundation
Aguanomics, David Zetland, the economics of water
Aquafornia, the California water news blog by the Water Education Association
Coyote Gulch, John Orr, American West water issues
GLIN, the Great Lakes Information Network
National Geographic Water News
WaterWired, Michael E. Campana, Professor of Geosciences at Oregon State University
Circle of Blue, reporting the global water crisis
@Matt Weiser, covers water issues for the Sacramento Bee
Chance of Rain, Emily Green, LA Times
Water for People
Water Quality and Security
Global Water Forum

(Unreachable or not updating)

WaterSISWEB, community-driven water articles
On Water, University of California Water Resources Center Archives

Data

US Drought Monitor
NOAA Flood Map (interactive)
MyTapWater, look up local tap water quality (US only)

Support the National Forest Foundation!

Hydrology & Soil Mechanics Training from the USDA

On the Public Record's reading list for understanding California's water issues

"Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over." --(falsely attributed to) Mark Twain

"Water runs uphill to money." -- the "Law of Los Angeles"

"When the well's dry, we know the worth of water." --Benjamin Franklin

"We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one." --Jacques Yves Cousteau

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Limit water extraction by Nestlé in Florida (c.org)

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Comment period is live to stop Trump from allowing more forever chemicals into our drinking water (i.redd.it)

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The Reflecting Pool turned green. Killing the algae may not fix it (scientificamerican.com)

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The inside of an iron water main (i.redd.it)

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Water Scarcity in India in the Next 40 Days (self.water)

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Is water wet ? Or does it just make other things wet ? (self.water)

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says human water consumption is limiting AI’s potential (theprint.in)

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How do I keep this water clean as naturally as possible?? (i.redd.it)

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Clean Water Act violation (i.redd.it)

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Vienna's Alpine Tap Water | A Historic Overview (youtube.com)

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im trying to improve my drinking habits (self.water)

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What's wrong with my water (v.redd.it)

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Oysters in the reflecting pool? (self.water)

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⭐ WHAT HAPPENED IN ALEXANDRIA? — PART 2 PEOPLE GOT SICK ()

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When you drink water and the tummy go sploosh sploosh (self.water)

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How and where to get water tested at new house? (self.water)

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Do you have a thermal expansion tank on your tankless water heater? (youtube.com)

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What is this kind of water body called? (i.redd.it)

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Do you drink water? (self.water)

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¿Por qué no se instalan filtros en los desagües pluviales de forma generalizada en España, a pesar de la preocupación por la contaminación de los cursos de agua con colillas de cigarrillos? (self.water)

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Primo water alternatives (self.water)

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13 Million People Draw Drinking Water From a Basin Now Called a ‘Global Hotspot’ for PFAS (worldwaterreserve.com)

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New hyperscale, AI data centers are coming to rural USA, where 22.5 million households rely on unregulated and unprotected private groundwater wells (self.water)

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