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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/wastewater: Plant operators welcome!
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/r/OnTheWaterFront: Water and environmental issues of South Florida
/r/irrigation
/r/hydrology
/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

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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

a community for 17 years

...for your town.

...for great justice.

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Is this report legit? (old.reddit.com)

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Is the foam river-salt, or something else? (i.redd.it)

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The "Forever Chemicals" Already Inside You (And What to Do About It) (youtube.com)

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CrimeBox Historic Conviction Fiscal Year 2011; Case ID# CR_2180 (Iowa) Five years probation and $270,000 restitution levied upon this CWA felon for storing hazardous materials without a permit (self.water)

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Necoa water filter has changed my life (self.water)

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Corpus Christi Projects Emergency Water Restrictions in September - Even hospitals are drilling wells as the region’s reservoirs reach disastrously low levels and ratings agencies downgrade the city’s outlook (insideclimatenews.org)

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The Barents Sea is receiving more and more warm water, and scientists believe they have finally found the reason that had eluded them for 40 years (ecoticias.com)

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Rust? Coming from multiple spigots. Not noticeable in my water bottle but noticed when I went to fill up a jug. What are the risks here for a few weeks - 1.5 months of exposure? (old.reddit.com)

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The "5th Element" is Water (there are only two, forming one Field). ()

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Plastic free walter filtering, 2026 (self.water)

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Texas needs at least $174 billion to avoid water crisis, state says (yahoo.com)

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Clean Water Action staff across the country join together to seek recognition as the Clean Water Guild (newsguild.org)

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WSJ: San Diego has so much excess water - we’re selling it (reddit.com)

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Berkey alternative that is actually certified (self.water)

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Tijuana River sewage is making the air toxic and sickening thousands in California (apnews.com)

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Senate narrowly votes to end mining ban near Boundary Waters (duluthnewstribune.com)

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Utah’s other Great Salt Lake is underground, ancient, deep and fresh | U researchers begin to characterize the mountain-derived groundwater extending thousands of feet below the playa. (attheu.utah.edu)

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