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    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
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      EU pushes back on ‘too big to care’ tech companies

      US and European corporate bond markets have started September with a bang

    • Monday, 4 September, 2023
      Moral Money
      Water worries hit the chip sector Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, a controversial way to cool the planet

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    • Monday, 4 September, 2023
      The Big Read
      The UK is at risk of running low on water. Why?

      A country famous for its rainy climate faces grave supply issues, after years of poorly managed systems

      Jodie Mills, director of the West Cumbria Rivers Trust, on the dry bed of the river Derwent with her small, white dog Maisie
    • Sunday, 27 August, 2023
      How Europe’s water supplies turned to ‘gold dust’

      Drought, leaky pipes and poor policy among several factors contributing to continent’s scarcity problem

      A man walks on the cracked ground of La Baells reservoir in Spain
    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      Parts of England at risk of running out of water last year, files show

      UK environment regulator warned government that companies were nearing ‘potential immediate supply risks’

      A heavily depleted reservoir in Derbyshire during last summer’s heatwave
    • Monday, 3 July, 2023
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      Live news update from July 4: Thames Water faces ‘huge resistance’ from investors, seven injured in attack in Tel Aviv
    • Sunday, 11 June, 2023
      Lex
      Droughts: when desserts make deserts, water tech is needed Premium content

      Bridging demand and supply gap will require investments in new technologies

      Packaged strawberries in Ayamonte, Huelva
    • Saturday, 27 May, 2023
      News in-depth
      ‘War over water’: drought battle reaches luxury pools of southern France

      Warming climate prompts ban on construction of new homes and swimming pools in hilltop Provence villages

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    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      Environment
      UK water industry pledges £10bn investment to stem sewage spills

      Environmental campaigners dismiss ‘empty’ apology issued by trade body Water UK

      Members of the public and protesters from Hastings and St Leonards Clean Water Action protest against sewage pollution in beaches in St Leonards, Sussex
    • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
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      Rising tide for $1bn water start-up Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, investors look to the next health crisis on the horizon

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    • Monday, 8 May, 2023
      Lex
      European water: climate change creates case for liquid investment Premium content

      Drought-hit Italy requires regulatory reform to attract capital needed to improve infrastructure

      A farmer assesses damage to his corn field caused by severe drought in Lombardy, Italy
    • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
      Climate change
      Horn of Africa drought made 100 times more likely by climate change, scientists report

      Worst drought in four decades has led to crop failures, animal deaths and left more than 4mn people in need of assistance

    • Wednesday, 29 March, 2023
      Taiwan
      Taiwan braced for further water shortages in its chipmaking hubs

      Water challenge comes as island pushes to maintain ‘silicon shield’ against China

      Tsengwen Reservoir
    • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
      Climate change
      UK government ‘strikingly unprepared’ for global warming

      Climate advisers’ report critical of progress and identifies multiple failures

    • Sunday, 12 March, 2023
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      Water: pricing is the key to equitable access Premium content

      Heavy manufacturing and agricultural users should pay more per unit to nudge them to reduce their own consumption

      A picture taken during low water levels due to the western drought on July 19, 2021 at the Lake Mead Marina on the Colorado River
    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      Alice Ross
      Water funds dilute the environmental message

      There may be an investment case for holding them, but it’s not obvious they are saving the planet

      A man baths in water from a broken drinking water pipe in Kolkata, India
    • Tuesday, 14 February, 2023
      Special ReportCircular Economy
      Droughts trigger water-saving debates in rainy regions

      Farmers are intensely aware of the challenges in conserving water supplies

      A woman walking behind a herd of cows on a farm
    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      Gillian Tett
      The battle for the Colorado River is a water warning to us all

      Who should control access to increasingly scarce resources?

      Illustration of a map of US states on the Colorado River, in red, with a tap dripping water on Colorado
    • Monday, 9 January, 2023
      News in-depth
      Water security in focus as England faces threat of another summer drought

      Fixing old, leaking pipes vital as prospect of hotter and drier summers loom

      People walk across an ancient pack horse bridge  in Baitings reservoir in Ripponden, United Kingdom.
    • Wednesday, 7 December, 2022
      News in-depthLebanon
      Lebanon water crisis fuels cholera outbreak: ‘Things are coming to a head’

      Nearly half of cases are children as fears grow that disease could become endemic

      Cholera patients in a field hospital
    • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
      Egypt
      Egypt battles climate change as world’s eyes turn to COP27

      Farmers struggle to make ends meet in unpredictable weather that has become the ‘new normal’

      A farmer carries rice
    • Wednesday, 9 November, 2022
      Michelle Williams
      Africa’s fragile food and water security threatens us all

      We are on the verge of a humanitarian crisis in the region — local innovation is key to solving it

      Children sit on water bottles waiting to be filled among tents in a displacement camp for people impacted by drought in Somalia
    • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
      Special ReportSustainable Food and Agriculture
      India’s rice farmers find themselves on front line of water crisis

      The country is struggling to wean itself off subsidies that encourage overuse

      farmer irrigating rice paddy fields
    • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
      Special ReportSustainable Food and Agriculture
      Climate pressures force businesses to count true cost of water

      Companies used to take water for granted in their accounting. Not any more

      Vodka bottles lined up at a Diageo plant in India
    • Saturday, 15 October, 2022
      Climate change
      World weather agency sounds alarm on dams, power and nuclear plants

      Water stress and floods place infrastructure at ‘significant risk’, World Meteorological Organization reports

      Aerial view of the construction site of Wudongde Hydropower Station in Kunming, China
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