Into the Mystical and Inexplicable World of Dowsing
For centuries, dowsers have claimed the ability to find groundwater, precious metals, and other quarry using divining rods and an uncanny intuition. Is it the real deal or woo-woo?
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Where the Water Used to Be
On water scarcity in Mexico City.
Wet 'n Wild
Is all water created equal? It depends on who you believe.
Damned to Fail
Unregulated dams across Texas are increasingly failing—putting people and property in jeopardy.
Water in the Desert
Inside the effort to prevent migrant deaths at the US-Mexico border.
Watermarks
The author on his reverence for water.
The journey of a river from source to mouth resembles our own journey from birth to death, an analogy oft remarked, and yet the beginnings and endings of rivers are as fictional as those we impose on stories. There are headwaters to headwaters and no river ever really ends.
Dry, the Beloved Country
A dispatch from Cape Town, where surprising things can happen when it feels like the world is about to end.
A Kingdom from Dust
Stewart Resnick is the biggest farmer in the United States, a fact he has tried to keep hidden while he has shaped what we eat, transformed California’s landscape, and ruled entire towns. But the one thing he can’t control is what he’s most dependent on—water.
Holy Water
The author on her reverence for water.
India’s Silicon Valley Is Dying of Thirst. Your City May Be Next.
Bangalore was once the icon of a globalized, high tech, utopian future. Now it’s a sign of global catastrophe.
A Bigger Problem Than ISIS?
The Mosul Dam is failing. A breach would cause a masssive wave that could kill as many as a million and a half people.
Liquid Assets
On the insane business of bottled water.
Meet the California Couple Who Uses More Water Than Every Home in Los Angeles Combined
Are megafarmers Lynda and Stewart Resnick visionary philanthropists or shrewd water barons?
Ripple Effect
“The crisis in Flint isn’t over. It’s everywhere.”
Liquid Assets
The hedge fund manager making a bet that Wall Street can solve the water crisis in the West.
How Government Poisoned the People of Flint
“They played a game of chess with our lives and we lost.”
Death of a Valley
In the middle of a new drought, looking back at a drowned California town.
Climate of Doubt
The art and science (or lack thereof) of water dowsing.
Killing the Colorado
An investigation into why the West is running out of water.
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Holy Crop
The labyrinth of policies that reward Arizona farmers for growing cotton, which uses six times as much water as lettuce and 60 percent more than wheat.
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The ‘Water Witch’
The woman who found the water to keep Las Vegas growing, for better or worse.
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Use It or Lose It
How a century-old water deal is encouraging waste and worsening the drought.
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End of the Miracle Machines
How the achievement of moving water comes at an enormous cost to the environment.
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Less Than Zero
Ground water and surface water stores are interconnected. But we count them twice.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Your Uncle Scott is a Lake Monster"
A lake house; complex family mysteries and horrors.
"From the backseat, I pull the hammer. I’m prepared to use it. I considered a hatchet, but it’s my brother."
Who Stole the Water?
How greed is sucking Texas dry.
Big Water
The California Dream is made possible by old water and big water. Unfortunately, the former doesn’t care about us, and the latter’s running dry.
American Aqueduct: The Great California Water Saga
“Too much is being asked of the Delta.”
Liquid City
The weird history and uncertain future of New York City’s shoreline.
In the Eye of the Whirlpool
Searching for a mysterious whirpool on an obscure map.
