CNN — Mohammad Al Shanti is forced to travel nearly four miles to Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza to fill up plastic bottles with water. “We don’t wash our clothes, we save every little drop,” he told CNN, describing the water situation as “catastrophic.” Finding clean water is becoming an all-consuming – and increasingly difficult – challenge for many Gazans. …
RIO VISTA, Calif. — Charlie Hamilton hasn’t irrigated his vineyards with water from the Sacramento River since early May, even though it flows just yards from his crop. In dry winters like the one California just had, less fresh water flows down from the mountains into the Sacramento River, the state’s largest. “The fallout of losing control of the Delta …
