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Water

This Historic Community Is Pushing the Nation Toward a Wind Power Revolution

In Smithsonian Magazine.

The Push for Tidal Power Faces Its Biggest Challenge Yet

in Smithsonian.

Could massive storm surge barriers end the Hudson River’s revival?

Environmentalists tend to think… yes.

At Yale360.

Illustration by Jen Renninger

Drinking Problems: A Kansas town confronts a tap-water crisis

The story of polluters who aren’t asked to pay, in Harper’s.

Industrial Corn Farms Pollute Drinking Water

Straightforward solutions exist. National Geographic

The Hidden Rivers of Brooklyn

About the potential for using nature to un-pervert urban hydrology — especially in the Gowanus watershed — in Harper’s magazine. (Email me if you can’t access it.)

A Tall, Cool Glass of… Sewage?

In The New York Times Magazine

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