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How do you retrofit an old industrial waterfront? Cleveland is finding out

by Marketplace Contributor
Jun 16, 2017
It's a work in progress that could take decades to finish.
Cleveland activist Dick Clough shows off the city’s downtown waterfront.
Matt Richmond/ideastream
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PepsiCo moves away from sugary drinks with premium bottled water brand

by Sally Herships
Feb 15, 2017
PepsiCo reports its earnings today. It’s a pivotal time for the company as it continues to move away from the shrinking market for sugary drinks and into the growing market sector of bottled water, worth $42 billion last year. This month the company is launching a new premium brand of bottled water – Lifewtr. It’s […]
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As Trump vows to cut regulation, Flint’s residents sue EPA for $772 million

by Jed Kim
Feb 2, 2017
About 1,700 residents of Flint, Michigan, are suing the Environmental Protection Agency for $772 million for allegedly mishandling the massive lead contamination in the city’s drinking water. This comes at the same time that the Trump administration is carrying through on promises to limit the EPA’s regulatory power. Will a weaker EPA allow for more […]
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The bathroom of the future will be smarter

by Lewis Wallace
Aug 31, 2016
Hygiene, inclusivity and water supply are just a few of the future toilet troubles.
Portable toilets in Ueno Park, on April 3, 2015 in Tokyo, Japan.
Chris McGrath/Getty Images
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Colorado's rain barrel banditry is coming to an end

by Marketplace Contributor
Jun 3, 2016
A frontier-era law ended last month when small drums were legalized.
Rain barrels are used to collect water that falls off into a home’s gutter system, and usually store between 40 and 60 gallons. In Colorado, their use has been illegal for decades.
Luke Runyon/KUNC and Harvest Public Media
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Life and death inside a Chinese 'cancer village'

by Rob Schmitz
May 19, 2016
Villagers in central China blame a chemical factory for a high incidence of cancer.
Liuchong villager Zhang Runxiang, with her mother in 2013, died two days after this picture was taken. Villagers say their water has been poisoned by a chemical company.
Rob Schmitz/Marketplace
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San Diego taps a bottomless well: the Pacific Ocean

by Jeff Tyler
May 17, 2016
A new desalination plant supplies 10 percent of arid San Diego's water.
The site of the Carlsbad desalination plant.
Bovlb/Wikimedia Commons
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To visualize climate change, think about water

by Jed Kim
May 4, 2016
Changes to the water cycle can have severe economic repercussions, a World Bank report says.
A boat dock is left in the dried bed of Huntington Lake, Californina, in 2014. A World Bank report says climate change could have a severe economic impact on some regions of the world.
MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images
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China's new weapon against water pollution: its people

by Rob Schmitz
May 2, 2016
China's government has asked citizens to help clean up the country's waterways.
The Xiaolong River in a southern suburb of Beijing is filled with trash. Citizens throughout China are being asked to report such rivers to the authorities in a new government campaign aimed at cleaning up its polluted waterways.
Rob Schmitz/Marketplace
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The battle over industrial water pollution in Alabama

by Gigi Douban
Apr 26, 2016
If new EPA regulations set stricter standards for some chemicals, water agencies could face costly clean-up measures
A view of the Tennessee River, which a lawsuit contends has been contaminated with chemicals from a nearby 3M plant for decades. 
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