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2021.10.28
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2021 Election Preview:

Next Tuesday, voters across the United States will head to the polls for major state and local elections. This week, Circle of Blue highlights the role water is playing on this year's ballots.

New York Considers Right to Clean Water
Voters in New York City will be asked whether to amend the state’s foundational document by inserting language that would protect individual rights to unimpaired ecosystems.
Photo © J. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue

Two Cities, Facing Floods and Aridity, Eye Big Public Works
In Boise and Virginia Beach, city officials are asking residents to approve measures that would authorize massive public works projects to position their communities for a future of warmer temperatures and higher waters.
Photo © Daniel Halseth / Unsplash

The Expensive Battle in Maine over Hydropower Imports
A petition on Maine's ballot would halt development of a high-voltage transmission line stretching from the Canadian border to Lewiston. If completed, the line will deliver hydropower generated in Quebec to Massachusetts, in order to fulfill the state’s clean energy goals. A small fraction of the power, about 5 percent, will go to Maine.
Photo © Flickr / Creative Commons user bdewey

HotSpots H2O: Flooding Is Latest Strain on South Sudan
Torrential rainfall is battering one of the world’s poorest countries, laying bare its weak infrastructure.⁠ ⁠
For weeks now, regions of South Sudan have faced the worst rainfall in over 50 years. ⁠Homes have been swept away, herds of cattle have drowned, and entire fields of sorghum and millet are inundated. According to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the rains have affected 700,000 people and counting, though the death toll remains unknown.⁠ ⁠
The severity and intensity of the storms is a result of global climate change, the agency says. It’s an issue to which the world’s poorest countries like South Sudan largely did not contribute—comprising just a sliver of global carbon emissions—but are the most vulnerable.⁠ ⁠
The floods are just the latest strain on the country. Violence in South Sudan has eased since its civil war ended last year, but ethnic conflict, community grievances, as well as climatic stressors like drought and flooding continue to drive tensions in the region.⁠ ⁠

What’s Up With Water – October 25, 2021

For the news you need to start the week, tune into “What’s Up With Water” fresh on Monday’s on iTunes, Spotify, i Heart Radio, and SoundCloud.

Featured coverage from this week's episode of What's Up With Water looks at:

In the United States, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife seeks to save a threatened species of salmon, which could also preserve the livelihood of local Native American tribes. In India, heavy rains swept across the Himalaya region, causing deadly landslides and floods. In South Africa, workers are removing invasive pine trees to preserve watersheds that are vital to millions of residents in Cape Town.

From Circle of Blue's Archives:

The Wekiva River flows through Orange County, Florida. County voters approved a charter amendment to grant the river and other county waterways legal rights. Photo courtesy of Flickr/Creative Commons user rain0975

2020 Election Recap: Florida County Overwhelmingly Supports Granting Legal Rights to Rivers

In last year's general election, residents of Orange County, Florida, voted overwhelmingly in favor of changing the county charter to give legal protection to rivers.

The result was one of a handful across the country in which voters endorsed new protections for waterways or property taxes that will fund water projects. Voters in Utah and Wyoming also approved constitutional amendments that fix technical matters related to municipal water supply and water infrastructure spending.