Eight INN member news organizations document serious concerns including contamination, excessive groundwater pumping and environmental inequity.
Read the stories in the collaboration below.
Eight INN members spent more than three months reporting on water issues in the Western U.S. For more INN reporting on this issue, see “Tapped Out: Power and water justice in the rural West.”
The very ground upon which Corcoran, California, was built has been slowly but steadily collapsing, a situation caused primarily by agriculture.
The Gila River Indian Community is ensuring that its members have long-term access to their own resources while helping solve broader water…
A new project comes as a result of a historic agreement that settled Navajo Nation claims to water in this region after decades of discussions.
An environmental coalition lobbies for a moratorium on mega-dairies, which have proliferated in a water-challenged area in Oregon.
Some rural California communities have waited nearly a decade for state regulators to repair their tainted drinking-water systems.
Toxic blooms are a public health risk and increase water treatment costs.
A monitoring program tracks toxic cyanobacteria and influences change.
The collaboration participants are INN members California Health Report and High Country News; SJV Water and the Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism; Circle of Blue; Columbia Insight; Ensia; and New Mexico In Depth.
This project was made possible by a grant from The Water Desk, with support from Ensia and INN’s Amplify News Project.
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