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For years afterward, the city’s water was tainted with lead, a human-made crisis that became emblematic of how poorer communities of color in the United States could fall victim to government ...
Constructed for $211 million, the High Desert Water Bank is connected to an aquifer that has enough space to store 280,000 acre-feet of water. That’s more than twice the storage of the San Luis ...
The Water Justice movement is a largely grassroots US movement, with small groups of citizens taking the issue into their own hands by means of protesting, petitioning, fundraising, or donating items such as water filters in order to broaden access to clean water. Some well-known people have used their exposure to further the cause of water ...
Learn how environmental racism affects communities of color and low-income areas in the US, and how it is linked to pollution, natural disasters, and health disparities. Explore the history, causes, and examples of environmental justice movements and activism.
Maude Barlow is a Canadian author and activist, known for her work on water rights and global issues. She is the founder of the Council of Canadians and the Blue Planet Project, and the author of 20 books, including Blue Gold and Blue Future.
Winters v. United States, 207 U.S. 564 (1908), was a United States Supreme Court case clarifying water rights of American Indian reservations. [1] This doctrine was meant to clearly define the water rights of indigenous people in cases where the rights were not clear. [2]
WRDA 1986 is a US law that authorized 262 water projects at a cost of $16 billion. It also established cost sharing formulas, rules, and guidelines for harbors, inland waterways, flood control, and environmental protection.
The United States inherited the British common law system which develops legal principles through judicial decisions made in the context of disputes between parties. . Statutory and constitutional law forms the framework within which these disputes are resolved, to some extent, but decisional law developed through the resolution of specific disputes is the great engine of w