Journalism About Water

Series produced by H2O Radio

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H2O Radio is journalism in the public interest. We conduct in-depth reporting on water issues both local and global to inform audiences and generate conversations.

We report on all aspects of water, but many topics seem to fall into one of two "buckets." We're either talking about water quantity—too little water or too much—or we're examining water quality and determining how much we are impacting this finite resource.

When we cover quantity, we're digging into drought, climate change, conservation, water rights, water conflicts, and scarcity. When we report on quality, we're investigating pollution, emerging contaminants, and drinking water sources. Of course, water is complex and we know that our coverage will often be the intersection of both quality and quantity—like when drought affects habitat or recreation, or climate change leads to saltwater intrusion into freshwater aquifers.


24 Pieces

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One of latest trends in the beauty industry is to keep the large volume of waste that salons generate out of landfills. Looking good now means bein...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 18, 2022
  • Length: 08:49
  • Purchases: 1
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We gladly recycle our aluminum and paper with the expectation it gets repurposed into something new. But the idea that our human waste that we flus...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: May 01, 2022
  • Length: 06:37
  • Purchases: 1
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Bees are dying worldwide from pesticide use, disease, and habitat loss, which is putting our food supply at risk. One company is looking to help sa...

Bought by KUNC & The Colorado Sound and KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 12, 2021
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 2
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Starting in the late 1950s, nearly everything but the kitchen sink was put in the ocean off the Southern California coast to promote sportfishing a...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 1
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The extraordinary story of how a B-29 crashed into Lake Mead over 70 years ago but was only found in the early 2000s—remarkably intact.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KRZA, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUNC & The Colorado Sound and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2021
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 7
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When veterans retire from the military—whether voluntarily or from injury—it can be a difficult transition. Gone is the camaraderie that gave their...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and KVNF


  • Added: May 07, 2020
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Science has been whipsawed by politics, and now with the new Trump administration, there may be another sharp swing to the right—threatening many p...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 31, 2017
  • Length: 07:38
  • Purchases: 1
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The South Platte River starts high up in the Rocky Mountains and is fed by many tributaries. The river nourishes cities and farms as it makes its w...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 26, 2016
  • Length: 07:22
  • Purchases: 2
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The Environmental Protection Agency has issued new stricter guidelines for two perfluorinated chemicals: PFOA and PFOS. The compounds have been li...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, and KSUT


  • Added: May 22, 2016
  • Length: 05:40
  • Purchases: 4
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They're only about the size of your fingernail, but they're a scourge of mammoth proportions. Zebra and quagga mussels are tiny mollusks that have...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 29, 2015
  • Length: 07:41
  • Purchases: 1
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The lifecycle of our clothes packs a punch. From where fabrics are grown to how they're manufactured and dyed, the water tally is high—and often to...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2015
  • Length: 15:45
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Coming Clean About Our Wardrobe's Water Footprint and Toxic Legacy

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 15:11
  • Purchases: 1
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Road salts put down in Winter are emerging in drinking water and Summer streamflows. Are we trading mobility for environmental degradation?

Bought by WMPG, KSUT, and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Mar 16, 2015
  • Length: 06:53
  • Purchases: 3
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Leaping dolphins, towering sea caves, long stretches of isolated beaches within a stone's throw of LA, but few visit this amazing place... but you ...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 13:27
  • Purchases: 1
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Aquaponics is a food production system that combines aquaculture (raising fish in tanks) with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) in a symbio...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Jan 07, 2015
  • Length: 08:03
  • Purchases: 2
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Yasuni National Park in Ecuador - the most biodiverse place on earth - is at risk from oil development. Can the country take the long view - and th...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 13:31
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Water Well Contamination in Colorado. Homeowners Wonder if Fracking Is To Blame. (2-part story; 5-6 minutes each)

  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 11:16
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Mile High Youth Corps provides jobs for young adults ages 18-24. Rooted in the tradition of the Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930s, it addres...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2014
  • Length: 06:12
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Acequias are communal irrigation canals that used to be found in much of the southwest. Only about 900 remain today, mostly in Northern New Mexico ...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2014
  • Length: 08:54
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We tagged along with some of the quiet heroes who, quite literally, go to great lengths to understand just how much water will come out of your tap.

Bought by Boise State Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 18, 2014
  • Length: 10:24
  • Purchases: 1