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What Glen is amplifying right now. Every card is the way to its research page, and every page sends you on to the publication it came from.
pinterestDr. Aviva Romm
A hero story about how one person can make an incredible difference to help give a voice to those who do not have one.
instagramThe EPA's Own Data
In January 2025 the EPA released its own draft risk assessment for PFAS in sewage sludge on farmland. The assessment acknowledges the risk. It does not ban the practice or set enforceable limits. This is a primary source — when someone tells you the government says it's safe, you can point here and ask: have you actually read what the government says?
instagramThe 5-Minute Morning Routine to Boost Your Brain — Amen Clinics
Dr. Amen's team built a five-minute morning sequence that puts water first — before coffee, before supplements, before movement. It's one of the clearest, most accessible pieces of practical brain-health guidance a clinic of his scale has ever published for free. Featuring it here so more people find it.
instagramPFAS in Compost
Montana PBS did something remarkable — they tested compost with EPA-certified labs and found 17 PFAS compounds in a popular municipal product. These are forever chemicals ending up in backyard vegetable gardens via biosolids. This is the kind of investigative work that deserves a wider audience.
instagramBrave Blue World
Liam Neeson-narrated, filmed across five continents — this is the quiet hopeful counterweight to the doomscroll. It profiles the scientists, engineers, and communities actually rebuilding the global water system, and it refuses to be either naive or nihilistic. Amplifying it because the people doing this work deserve to be seen, and the film itself is a piece of public-service storytelling.
instagramASCE 2025 Infrastructure Report Card — Water Systems Still Lag
Most authoritative infrastructure assessment. Explains why tap water is getting harder to clean. This is an important story for us to understand.
linkedinAI, Data Centers, and Water — Brookings Institution
We need to share the impact that the Ai universe is having on the world of water. These things need to be understood so sustainable focus can be placed at the center of true understanding,
4ocean | Our Mission to Remove Plastic + Trash from Our Oceans
Doing incredible work teaching people about what's happening in the oceans and making a real dent in plastic buildup. Runs beach cleanups, water diking programs, and ocean harvesting initiatives. Should be paired with Boyan Slat's Ocean Cleanup Project — both are essential voices working on the same problem from different angles.
Ocean Cleanup Project by Boyan Slat
New technology speeding up the reclamation of plastics from massive ocean areas. The Atlantic plastic island is now larger than the state of Texas. A good news story about innovation fighting back — should be paired with 4Ocean, which is working on the same problem from a different angle.
The Spring - Charity: Water Documentary
An extraordinary charity that has completely changed the way charities run — 100% of donations go directly to the cause, with staff salaries paid by patrons who believe in the mission. Not just a documentary, but proof that integrity-led organizations can change the world while setting a new standard for how giving should work.
Water.org
Uses microloans and grassroots solutions to give families in the developing world access to water that can financially transform their lives — enabling livestock, agriculture, and economic change. Founded by Gary White and Matt Damon, doing meaningful work where it's needed most.
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha: Data-Driven Advocacy
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha is the pediatrician and scientist who blew the whistle on the Flint water crisis. Her data-driven advocacy is the defining example of how a single scientist can force a government to act on water contamination. Essential viewing for understanding the intersection of water, public health, and justice.
Blue Mind: The Science of Water and Wellbeing
A deeper dive into how water heals people in mind, body, and spirit. We have connected a preview of the audio book, enjoy the message
The Clean Water Awakening: Why Pure Hydration is Leading Humanity's Health Revolution
I wrote this piece to document the cultural shift happening right now — the turn away from artificial beverages and toward conscious hydration. The science on mental clarity, skin health, and cellular function finally caught up to what traditional cultures understood intuitively. Clean water isn't a health fad. It's a return to something we never should have abandoned.
Why Your Brain Needs Minerals to Function Properly
Huberman neurotransmitters + minerals episode backbone. WaterX North crossover content.
University of Waterloo Water Institute
Incredible focus on water issues that are ground breaking.
Water Use in US Data Centers: Legal and Regulatory Risks
This is pure waterx narrative
Dalhousie Water RESILIENCE Lab — $552M Federal Funding
This is an example of active exploration and funding options and research in the middle of a water crisis that needs to reach deeper for answers.
Data Centers and Water Consumption — EESI Policy Brief
This is exactly what our focus on environment and technology needs to stay focused on. This a battle for water between every living thing on this planet and advanced computing. Thinking outside the box is going to required, and better information for all of us as we make life decisions.
AI's Cooling Problem: How Data Centers Are Transforming Water Use
The fight between clean available water and the growth of LLM's water use needs close attention. This is a piece of a much larger puzzle that places supply issues for water supplies already under stress.
Mamavation
Covers the devastating reality of microplastic and forever chemical buildups in breast milk, and the introduction of nano and microplastics into baby formula through plastic-lined bottles — sometimes pushing a million microplastic particles into a baby during their development years. An absolute mess that needs to be talked about.
Dr. Rodney Habib — Planet Paws
Great focus on pet health and the new issues of chemical and microplastic reaching pets and increasing cancer and other disease that threatens pet life. This is also an insight into risks for their human owners.
Harvard: Hydration and Cognitive Performance
Harvard name provides scientific credibility. Core citation for brain health angle.
Johnny Harris
Johnny Harris is one of the most skilled explanatory journalists working today — his water-crisis videos reach millions with a level of geographic and systems thinking you almost never see on YouTube. When he takes on aquifer depletion, Colorado River politics, or the Great Lakes, he makes it legible without flattening it. His voice deserves to be part of any serious water map.
Scientists issue warning after making disturbing discovery on popular beaches - The Cool Down
People are being lulled into a false sense of security that plastic pollution is getting better. It isn't. Scientists monitoring what's washing up on beaches are finding it's getting worse, not better — the stuff thrown away 40 years ago is still out there, and it's being added to daily.
Sustainable Film Series explores plastic pollution | VailDaily.com
The Vail Daily Sustainable Film Series is one of those small-town efforts doing big work — programming documentary after documentary on plastic pollution and pulling mountain communities into conversations most news cycles never carry. Local film series like this one are where long-form water journalism still reaches neighbors face to face. Worth following for anyone tracking how these issues land in real communities.
Over 650,000 water bottles recalled - MSN
When the "safe alternative" gets recalled for contamination, the story tells itself. This MSN report covers the recall of more than 650,000 water bottles and what was actually found inside them. It's a reminder that the label on the bottle is not the same thing as what's in the bottle.
Microplastics found in 90 per cent of prostate tumours, study reveals
Not just in the blood. Not just in the brain. Now in tumors — in the tissue of active cancers. The accumulation hypothesis just got clinical. The question is no longer whether microplastics are harmful. It's how far the damage has already reached.
How sunlight can transform plastic waste into vinegar - Earth.com
An important and underreported story. Plastic waste is creating pH transformations in lakes, oceans, rivers, and groundwater — and pH corruption destroys the ability to grow anything. Earth.com is a strong voice to amplify on this topic.
Plastic Without End: Are We Polluting the Planet for Eternity? - SciTechDaily
The plastics industry's most successful lie is the idea that throwing it away makes it someone else's problem. It doesn't go away — ever. It fragments into microplastics, then nanoplastics, then into your bloodstream and your child's brain. "Without end" isn't a metaphor. It's chemistry.
A novel methodology to study the release of fragmented fibres, including microplastics, in ... - Nature
The methodology matters here. This research introduced a way to measure microplastic release from textiles and fibers that finally gives us numbers we can compare. When you see headlines about millions of particles per wash cycle — this is the science behind it.
Shocking: Microplastics in Big-City Air Are Dozens of Times More Abundant Than Expected
You're not just drinking it — you're breathing it. Microplastics are now in the air of every major city at concentrations that were supposed to be impossible. This is what happens when ocean plastic reaches its final form. There is no outside.
Scientists issue warning about invisible hazard in plastic water bottles - The Cool Down
Microbubbles eroding off plastic bottle walls — not just BPA leaching, but physical particles fragmenting every time you squeeze the bottle. This study reframed plastic exposure from "what's in the water" to "what comes off the container."
EU warned that unequal pollution progress threatens 2030 health, green goals - The Brussels Times
The people with political power to clean up live far enough from the pollution to pretend things are getting better. This piece tracks the gap between the EU's stated 2030 goals and the reality on the ground — for communities already drinking contaminated water.
Plastic pollution may be supercharging algae blooms - Earth.com
A double-edged story. Microplastics are increasing temperatures and algae mass, choking out ocean life — blooms now appearing in unprecedented locations for the first time in recorded history. But there's a good news side: new microbes emerging in deep ocean algae buildups are beginning to eat plastic. The good news story needs to be found and attached to this source.
Nanoplastics could make drinking water harder to keep safe - Earth.com
Nanoplastics are the next layer of the problem. Smaller than microplastics — small enough to cross the blood-brain barrier — and they appear to interfere with the filtration and treatment processes we use to clean municipal water. The system that's supposed to protect us can't catch them.
Charity: Water - Radical Transparency Model
Scott Harrison walked away from a decade of nightclub promotion and rebuilt his life around a single rule: 100% of public donations go to the water projects, no overhead skimmed for salaries or fundraising. That kind of radical transparency was almost unheard of in the aid sector. Charity: Water has funded clean-water access for more than 17 million people across 29 countries — and showed the entire nonprofit world what donor trust looks like when you actually earn it.
The Corporate Plastic Conspiracy: Why Big Oil Won't Let You Escape Their 500-Year Poison
I wrote this piece after watching the petroleum industry's investor calls pivot from gasoline to plastics. The data is undeniable: as EVs reduce fuel demand, petrochemical producers are doubling down on single-use plastics. This isn't speculation — it's their stated strategy. Someone needed to connect the dots between the climate wins we're celebrating and the contamination crisis being built behind the scenes.
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