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Monthly Water Brief

Your monthly read for the water and climate world. News, job openings, funding opportunities, and communications updates curated for people who care about how water stories get told.

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Friday, July 17

Across the UK, Ireland and beyond, drought messaging tipped this week from polite requests into enforced restrictions. Meanwhile in the US, the Senate advanced its biggest water funding bill in years, a reminder that the same crisis is being met with both pipes and persuasion.

Friday, July 10

The world's oceans just logged their hottest June ever recorded, and UN scientists declared an era of "global water bankruptcy" yet the same week brought a $790 million water treatment deal and new science showing exactly where the planet can bank water underground.

Friday, July 3

Saudi Water Week, India's new research mission, a Liberian water story, and ways to get involved.

Friday, June 26

We were mentioned twice at SIWI workshop this week. Here's what else happened in water.

Friday, June 19

False balance, frontline water stories, and the groundwater data the world needs to hear.

Tuesday, June 9

Childhood rivers, ocean data silenced by policy, and a UN Water Conference to prepare for.

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