Just in case you'd forgotten that the water utilities have been pumping sewage into our waterways on a regular basis, United Utilities have been found (again) pumping sewage into Windermere.

Not only that, strangely they did exactly the same thing the year before... its almost like they'd prefer to pay dividends & enhance executives' pay than actually fix the problems in their infrastructure.

#sewage #water #lakedistrict

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv266nqq48xo

Untreated sewage pumped into Windermere after fault

Millions of litres of raw sewage were pumped into one of England's most famous lakes after a fault.

^{Joe Crowley (BBC News)}

Whitehaven Harbour

#lakedistrict #cumbria #fuji #fujifilm #photography #harbour #boats #yachts #whitehaven #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #clouds #water #photographer

Big #water news.
The conservative SCOTUS killed the national protections for vast numbers of rivers, streams, and wetlands in the Sackett decision.
Now, one state, Colorado, has used state's rights provisions to re-establish those protections. Time for more states to do so.

https://coloradosun.com/2024/05/09/colorado-law-protecting-wetlands-supreme-court/

Colorado to shield thousands of acres of wetlands, miles of streams after U.S. Supreme Court left them vulnerable

Colorado lawmakers back new permitting program overseeing construction, road building, other activities impacting state waters

^{Jerd Smith (The Colorado Sun)}

Third blog post with photos from this year’s trip to Mallorca.

https://jonas.brusman.se/views-in-port-de-soller/

#mallorca #photo #photos #photographs #photography #fujifilm #fujifilmX100V #x100 #sea #landscape #water @photography #DarkroomApp #workcation #teamtailor

A drone view of women drawing water from a well on a hot day in Kasara, India, May 1, 2024. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

@photography
#India
#water

For all the hand-wringing over “illegals” breaking the law, this story of an illegal dam that messed with the water supply of millions of people downstream, built on the private ranch of one of the *border wall contractors*, is something.

#Texas #Water

https://www.kxan.com/texas-water/illegal-dam-on-james-river-torn-down-while-another-dam-pops-up-in-mason-county/

Documentary about unsafe drinking water in various locations across the United States due to manmade pollution, outdated infrastructure and natural toxins.

Made by journalism students as part of the News21.com project at Arizona State University, USA. this documentary is part of a wider investigation which includes long form written articles and news photography. You can view the entire investigation at troubledwater.news21.com

Posted here under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 US licence (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/). Complete production credits are shown at the end of the video from timestamp 26:35.

"Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist. and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn't make a corporation a terrorist."
—Winona Laduke, #Ojibwe economist & environmentalist

took your meme to add it #AltText
(am i doing this right?!?!)

image via @indigenous_commentator
https://mastodon.social/@indigenous_commentator@stranger.social/109570976983695319

AltText via @aral
https://mastodon.social/@aral@mastodon.ar.al/112326950282914642

#ecocide #water #NDN

A houseboat camps on the shore in shallow water in a canyon at Lake Powell near Page, Arizona, May 26, 2015. The lake, on the Colorado River provides water for Nevada, Arizona and California. REUTERS/Rick Wilking

@photography
#Arizona
#LakePowell
#water

An aerial view of Lake Powell, where water levels have declined dramatically as growing demand for water and climate change shrink the Colorado River in Page, Arizona, November 19, 2022. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs

@photography
#Arizona
#LakePowell
#water

Well, this seems to be an interesting and unexpected big deal: a new paper suggests that light can evaporate water without actually needing to heat the water up first. And it could sort out a few problems in existing cloud physics:

https://news.mit.edu/2024/how-light-can-vaporize-water-without-heat-0423

#physics #water

Well, we've got to give Sunak's mates time to make some profit before we get landed with the debt and a 56% increase in bills.

#UKPolitics #CostOfGreedCrisis #Water

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-17/hedge-funds-including-millennium-are-shorting-uk-water-companies

Thames Water Crisis: Hedge Funds Are Shorting UK Water Companies

Hedge funds including Millennium Management and Arrowstreet Capital are shorting the assets of UK water companies after a crisis at Thames Water spotlighted high debt levels across the industry.

^{Laura Benitez (Bloomberg)}

Shoreline Shots

Silloth coast, on North Western edge of the Lake District.

#concrete #landscape #coast #waterways #shoreline #waves #cumbria #LakeDistrict #sea #water #photography #photographer #viltrox #fujifilm #landscapephotography #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #beach #railings #metalwork #rust @your_lakedistrict

Scientists from around the world are becoming increasingly alarmed by mass coral bleaching events caused by record-breaking ocean water temperatures. Water found to be as warm as a hot tub off the coast of Florida last year has moved to the southern hemisphere, infecting the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, as well as coral in coastlines in Brazil, Tanzania and the Red Sea. The BBC has more on the threat to marine life.

https://flip.it/pjhyjm

#Coral #Ocean #Coast #Water #SeaLife

Coral bleaching: Fourth global mass stress episode underway - US scientists

Ocean heat records have been breaking for months. This is the first global evidence of the impacts on sea life.

^{By Georgina Rannard (BBC News)}