With roads and bridges damaged and water and electricity out, people who rely on every-other-day dialysis treatments needed extraordinary efforts to survive the storm’s aftermath.
Tag: Water
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Virginia Uses Treated Wastewater to Shore Up a Drinking Water Aquifer
A crucial aquifer is running low, so officials are pumping in treated sewage. It’s an increasingly common strategy as heavy demand and climate change strain water supplies.
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Russia Targets Power, Water and Heat for Ukraine’s Civilians
The stepped-up attacks on cities, including through the heavy use of Iranian-made exploding drones, threaten a new sort of humanitarian crisis for Ukrainians this winter.
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In Face of Drought, the Netherlands Reverses Course to Save Water
As climate change dries out Europe, the Netherlands, a country long shaped by its overabundance of water, is suddenly confronting drought.
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Kathmandu Finally Got Tap Water. After a Climate Disaster, It Was Gone.
A disaster that wiped out a decades-long project to bring pipe-borne water to Nepal’s capital shows the mismatch between slow-moving donor-financed efforts and rapid global warming.