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World enters 'era of global water bankruptcy': UN scientists formally define new post-crisis reality for billions https://phys.org/news/2026-01-world-era-global-bankruptcy-scientists.html
UN report declares global state of 'water bankruptcy…

World enters 'era of global water bankruptcy': UN scientists formally define new post-crisis reality for billions
Amid chronic groundwater depletion, water overallocation, land and soil degradation, deforestation, and pollution, all compounded by global heating, a UN report today declared the dawn of an era of global water bankruptcy, inviting world leaders to facilitate "honest, science-based adaptation to a new reality."

#Oil field injected brine popping up from improperly sealed wells in Oklahoma #geology — ProPublica
https://www.pr…

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.

Measuring the consequences of plastic contamination #environment

Measuring the consequences of plastic contamination
Plastic pollution is everywhere—including where you would least expect it, especially when it's in tiny particle form. Today, scientists are working to measure the consequences of this contamination. There's the pollution you can see—on the beach, on the roadside and in open-air landfills. And then there's the pollution you can't—on the peak of Mount Everest, deep inside the Mariana Trench, in clouds, in buildings, and in our water supply, food, blood and brain.

"Cigarette filters: An underestimated source of microplastic pollution"
#Cigarettes #Pollution #Environment

Cigarette filters: An underestimated source of microplastic pollution
It is well known that discarded cigarette butts release nicotine, heavy metals and other toxins into the environment, including natural water systems. Less understood, however, is what happens to the plastic-based filters that shed these chemicals.

Commission recommends extension of nitrates derogation for Ireland
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/1127/1546115-mcgrath-nitrates-ireland/
<< Ireland has appaling awful water pollution from nitrates. If this is to be allowed, it should be …

Commission recommends extension of nitrates derogation
Ireland's EU Commissioner Michael McGrath has said the European Commission has recommended to extend the nitrates derogation for Ireland.

Era of ‘global water bankruptcy’ is here, UN report says https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/20/era-of-global-water-bankruptcy-is-here-un-report-says

A Small Oil Company Polluted Midland’s Water Reserve. The Cleanup Has Dragged on for Years. - Inside Climate News https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18012026/west-texas-oil-cleanup-drags-on/

A Small Oil Company Polluted Midland’s Water Reserve. The Cleanup Has Dragged on for Years. - Inside Climate News
Cleaning up oilfield pollution in arid West Texas is costly and complicated. The bankruptcy process allows companies to move on while the public pays the price.

#Sigh But, you know, property rights, who is the state to hold the wealthy accountable?
https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-gas-wastewater-pollution

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.

#Sigh But, you know, property rights, who is the state to hold the wealthy accountable?
https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-gas-wastewater-pollution

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.

The Watershed Pollution Map - Watershed Investigations
https://watershedinvestigations.com/find-out-whats-polluting-your-local-rivers-lakes-and-coast/

"Water firms could be let off pollution fines as part of government overhaul"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Pollution #Environment

😠 Defunct Pennsylvania oil and gas wells may leak methane and metals into water
#pollution

Defunct Pennsylvania oil and gas wells may leak methane and metals into water
In the dense forests of northwestern Pennsylvania, hundreds of thousands of retired oil and gas wells—some dating back to the mid-1800s, long before modern construction standards—dot the landscape, according to geochemists in Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences who recently led a study in the region. Left uncapped and exposed to air and erosion, they break down, leaching harmful chemicals into the atmosphere and, the researchers reported, into the groundwater.

La pollution plastique va plus que doubler d'ici 2040, générant l'équivalent d'un camion poubelle de déchets chaque seconde.
#plastique #environnement

‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/03/just-an-unbelievable-amount-of-pollution-how-big…

The takeaway sentence here: “[T]wo-thirds of new data centers built or in development [in the US] since 2022 are in places already gripped by high levels of water stress.”
This is particularly pertinent here in #Australia, where already, once-plentiful artesian water’s dwindling, nitrogen- and phosphorus-rich runoff chokes waterways with algae and destroys coral reefs, and

Toxic wastewater from oil fields keeps pouring out of the ground.
-- Oklahoma regulators failed to stop it.

Salt water laced with
cancer-causing chemicals,
a byproduct of oil and gas drilling,
is spewing from old wells.
Experts warn of a pollution crisis
spreading underground
and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water

Toxic wastewater from oil fields keeps pouring out of the ground. Oklahoma regulators failed to stop it.

From David Suzuki
Expanding LNG will increase prices and pollution
Higher home heating prices. Pollution. Accelerating climate change. Water shortages. Indigenous rights violations. Who wants that? Apparently the obscenely profitable fossil fuel companies, and unimaginative, short-sighted governments banking on outdated ideas to shore up the economy.
Has industry lived up to its LNG promises? A David Suzuki Foundation report concludes that it hasn’t & isn’t likely to.

Wetlands efficiently remove nitrogen pollution from surface water, leading to cost savings for municipalities https://phys.org/news/2025-10-wetlands-efficiently-nitrogen-pollution-surface.html

Wetlands efficiently remove nitrogen pollution from surface water, leading to cost savings for municipalities
Wetlands are an important part of the ecological system, providing a myriad of benefits for people, wildlife, and the environment. They also serve as "nature's kidneys," filtering out pollutants from surface water. A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign finds that wetlands along the Mississippi River Basin effectively clean up nitrogen runoff from agricultural fields. The researchers also show this can lead to significant savings for local drinking water treatment faciliti…

"‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate?"
#Climate #ClimateChange #AI

Where does a western chemical plant that contaminated drinking water go next? To India https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/31/miteni-factory-pfas-plant-italy-india

"Ofwat letting water firms charge twice to tackle sewage, court to hear"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Sewage #Pollution