r/water

43K archived posts · Jul 2008 – Sep 2026

Water: policy, science, controversy, issues, hydrology, climate change caused drought and flooding.

r/water

Devoted to the science and politics of water: aquifers, dams, hydrology, boundary disputes, peak water, riparian rights, climate change, drought & flooding, stormwater, groundwater, fish kills, fossil water, and news by the acre-foot.

Created Jul 10, 2008

53KMembers (last snapshot)

43KArchived posts

Welcome to Reddit Water, founded 2008

Water is the most precious resource on Earth. It will be the most contested resource of the 21st century.

Governments, corporations and citizens are now realizing the policy battles of today will have far reaching consequences for communities, nations, political stability, economic opportunities and profits.

Topics: access, agriculture, aquifers, aquatic farming, boundary disputes, bottled water, cleanups, conservation, contamination, dams and dam removal, desalinization, dredging, drought, economics, fish kills, floods, fracking, groundwater, hydrology, hydrogeology, hydropolitics, intrusion, invasive species, irrigation, overdrafts, peak water, policy, pollution, privatization, riparian rights, river compacts, runoff, sanitation, sewage, stormwater, waste, withdrawals

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Tangential subreddits:

Water blogs and feeds

Significant Figures by Peter Gleick
Groundwater Blog of the Groundwater Foundation
Aguanomics, David Zetland, the economics of water
Aquafornia, the California water news blog by the Water Education Association
Coyote Gulch, John Orr, American West water issues
GLIN, the Great Lakes Information Network
National Geographic Water News
WaterWired, Michael E. Campana, Professor of Geosciences at Oregon State University
Circle of Blue, reporting the global water crisis
@Matt Weiser, covers water issues for the Sacramento Bee
Chance of Rain, Emily Green, LA Times
Water for People
Water Quality and Security
Global Water Forum

(Unreachable or not updating)

WaterSISWEB, community-driven water articles
On Water, University of California Water Resources Center Archives

Data

US Drought Monitor
NOAA Flood Map (interactive)
MyTapWater, look up local tap water quality (US only)

Support the National Forest Foundation!

Hydrology & Soil Mechanics Training from the USDA

On the Public Record's reading list for understanding California's water issues

"Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over." --(falsely attributed to) Mark Twain

"Water runs uphill to money." -- the "Law of Los Angeles"

"When the well's dry, we know the worth of water." --Benjamin Franklin

"We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one." --Jacques Yves Cousteau

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