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Designer Water, Horse Jizz, and Other Ridiculously Expensive Liquids
A gallon of semen from a popular show jumping stallion is worth $4.7 million.
The Activist Who Keeps Exposing Environmental Racism in the U.S.
Dr. Beverly Wright, co-founder of the National Black Environmental Justice Network, has spent decades empowering communities that are vulnerable to toxic chemicals.
Climate Change Is Making Women's Chores Deadlier
The job of collecting water during the dry season is sending women in northern Kenya farther and farther afield, even while pregnant. Some women don't make it back alive.
NASA Found a Lot of Water on the Moon In Breakthrough for Human Habitation
Lunar water “may be more widely distributed and accessible as a resource for future missions than previously thought,” according to one of two major studies published on Monday.
Battles Over Water Are Stoking a War in Africa’s Sahel
The solutions aren't simple, and conflicts are on the rise.
Coronavirus Is Devastating the Navajo Nation
About 30% to 40% of residents don’t have running water, which makes following basic CDC guidelines, such as handwashing, almost impossible.
They Were Tired of Dirty Tap Water. So They Became the Water Authority
After going decades without clean drinking water, 15 First Nations in Atlantic Canada have signed an agreement with the federal government to create the country's first Indigenous-led water authority.
Landlords Can’t Evict Their Tenants, So They're Shutting Off Utilities and Threatening Them Instead
“I’m certain they’re aware it’s illegal, and I’m certain they don’t care.”
Michigan's Ex-Gov. Rick Snyder Knew About Flint's Toxic Water—and Lied About It
Six years after the city of Flint, Michigan, began using a toxic water source that sickened its residents, VICE uncovered payoffs, the silencing of a whistleblower, a shady financial deal, a coverup, and the former governor who presided over it all.
Lack of Water in Parts of Africa Will Be a Huge Problem if Coronavirus Hits
Many people in Nigeria, Sierra Leone and other countries don't have the means to wash their hands as frequently as public health experts advise.
Trump Wants to Take Water Away from Whales and Endangered Fish and Give It to Wealthy California Farmers
Orca whales and salmon populations are particularly vulnerable.
This Renewable Energy Device Powers 100 LEDs with a Single Drop of Water
What if an umbrella could charge your phone? By tweaking well-known principles, scientists have created a highly efficient generator that can pump out lots of renewable energy with just a bit of water.