Category: People Stories
It doesn’t require a hero to do something heroic! There is great merit even in small acts of water-mindfulness — because of the acts themselves and because of the kind of people it makes us. —H2O IQ editor
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Energy company wants to build hydropower projects on the Navajo Nation. Not everyone is on board.
Photo: Percy Deal, a resident of the Big Mountain community on Black Mesa, sits in a field near the foothills of the mountainous region on August 23, 2023. Deal and other nearby residents say their communities haven’t been consulted enough on the proposed construction of a hydropower energy project. Chris Clements/KSJD Percy Deal, a member…
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Understanding the connection between surface water, groundwater and the environment with Caitlin Cornwall
Photo: Caitlin Cornwall at Sonoma Creek next to one of Sonoma Ecology Center’s monitoring stations When Caitlin Cornwall walks along Sonoma Creek and observes the native plant habitat, listens to the birdsong in the air and watches the current rippling downstream, she knows that the health of the ecosystem depends on having a sustainable groundwater…
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Why limiting PFAS in drinking water is a challenge in the US
The EPA faces legal and other hurdles as it attempts to regulate PFOA and PFOS An article in the local newspaper caught Andrea Amico’s eye in May 2014. It reported that one of the three drinking-water wells at a sprawling business and industrial park nearby was shut down because of high levels of chemical contamination.…
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‘If there’s no water, what’s the point?’ Female farmers in Arizona – a photo essay
Anastasia Rabin ranches on a 16-acre piece of land in Cochise County. But what will she do out here without water? Photograph: Audra Mulkern Arizona has the highest proportion of female farmers – but conditions in this dry desert landscape aren’t easy, and rural isolation has created a tapestry of challenges. By 9am, it’s already…
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EPIC to honor local watershed advocate
Petey Brucker is pictured collecting otolith bones for fisheries researchers from spawned-out spring chinook salmon in the Trinity Alps Wilderness, Upper South Fork Salmon River in 2004. (Photo by Felice Pace) The Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC) has presented Petey Brucker with the 2023 Sempervirens Lifetime Achievement Award for lifelong environmental activism advocating for the…
