Water

Water scarcity is often the result of unequal power relations rather than a natural phenomenon. Post-growth can help ensure more equal access.

Once a symbol of coexistence between nature and humans, the Bug River is now a political battlefield, flanked by heavy barriers and fallen trees.

A cross-border investigation explores groundwater depletion in Romania, Italy, and Germany, three of the EU’s hardest-hit countries.

Farmers in Sicily are taking advantage of warming temperatures to bring new fruits to market. Will this lift the fortunes of southern Italian farming?

Faced with resistance to their energy-intensive data centres in northern Europe, Big Tech companies are looking south. Can Spain take this gamble?

Plastic pollution and the climate emergency are forcing us to question our water consumption habits.

During communism, irrigation systems made the Romanian Plain agriculturally robust, but have since collapsed. Droughts are the new reality.

Water wars are not inevitable but the result of bad management.

Rivers can be used to combat the risks of flooding or drought, particularly in urban areas. But schemes can negatively impact the environment and water quality.

A year since a toxic algae bloom killed millions of fish in the Odra, Poland’s river restoration efforts remain insufficient. But the demands of citizens to democratise water management are becoming impossible to ignore.