Along Newtown Creek and Jamaica Bay, decades of work are slowly restoring neglected waterways. Now comes a new challenge: Making sure New Yorkers can use those liquid assets in harmony…
An already belated effort to bring city rivers and bays up to Clean Water Act standards appears to have stalled because of a legal dispute involving Albany’s approval of the…
Fifty years ago, New York voters approved the Pure Waters Bond Act, a predecessor of the Clean Water Act, which set the national goal of making all our waters safe…
Finish the breakfast dishes, take a shower, flush the toilet, brush your teeth, boil some water for tea and then sit down to hear reporting and interviews on the city’s…
WNYC and City Limits teamed up last month for a series of radio stories and investigative articles on the city’s water system. Now, like a great summer beach-read that’s been…
A coalition of water-quality groups outline ways that policymakers, city workers and individual residents can make a dent in the amount of untreated water that taints New York’s creeks, rivers…
Historically known as black bear, bobcat and beaver country, the Catskills have become popular for trout fishing and bald eagle spotting, due in part because of how we get our…
A strategy to clean up Flushing Creek, one of a number of waterways the city has to target for pollution reduction, has environmentalists pushing the de Blasio administration to use…