By staying on message and advancing through prayer and ceremony, the water protectors gave the rest of the world a template for resistance. By Louise Erdrich.

Desperate towns have turned to private equity firms to manage their waterworks. The deals bring much-needed upgrades, but can carry hefty price tags. By Danielle Ivory, Ben Protess and Griff Palmer.

To say that Michigan is an ideal state in which to operate a bottled water factory is something of an understatement. Nestle Waters North America, the world's largest bottled water company, shipped the first bottle from its Ice Mountain plant in Stanwood in May 2002. Since then, the company has extracted billions of gallons of groundwater from underneath Michigan and has paid next to nothing for it.

NASA spacecraft finds that Ceres is full of water. By Alexandra Witze.

Nestle, which is arguably the world’s leading advocate of water privatization, is about to acquire 100 million gallons of drinking water in Michigan. By Tom Cahill.

The mayor of Flint, Michigan, and over 100 advocacy groups on Monday sent an open letter to all members of Congress, demanding emergency aid to help the city cope with its ongoing water crisis.The city, whose residents continue to suffer from health problems related to lead-tainted drinking water, still does not have clean water.

The encampment set up to protest a pipeline in North Dakota is now more of a small town, and it’s not going anywhere. By Hilary Beaumont.

Beaver dams have been demolished, burbling fountains silenced, and the drinking water in one southern town has taken on the light brownish color of sweet tea… By Jeff Martin.

The agency on Friday ordered anyone in the encampments north of the Cannonball River in North Dakota to immediately leave. Anyone remaining on Corps-managed property risks arrest.. By Martha Ann Overland.

How five large trees in remote Oregon ended up as winter housing for water protectors, including their first newborn baby. By Jane Braxton Little.

Pipeline protesters attempted to remove burned out vehicles blocking the Backwater Bridge on Highway 1806, which led to an hours-long standoff with police using water cannons to repel protesters on [a below freezing] Sunday night. By Caroline Grueskin.

Single-use water bottles generate up to 20 percent of the waste in National Parks but Congress is preventing their ban. By Alexis Bonogofsky.

It’s one of the most fundamental compounds on Earth, and it makes up roughly 60 percent of the human body, and yet water is turning out to be stranger than we could have ever imagined.

Researchers have found that the water has its own self-sustaining life-support system, with evidence it may be home to unidentified microbial life. By Ivan Semeniuk.

As arrested water protectors’ cases head to court, attorneys and funds are needed to fight the charges, and here’s a list of what lawyers can do. By Steffani Cochran.

Untreated sewage fuels algal blooms in the world’s largest freshwater lake, home to scores of unique plant and animal species. By Rachel Nuwer.

Armed men in jackboots, some masked and toting assault rifles, stand mockingly, defiantly, heavily on the mound of graves – a sacred indigenous burial ground.  A site non-natives can understand as similar to Arlington National Cemetery… By Robert Barsocchini.

Kelcy Warren, CEO of Energy Transfer Partners’s which is building the Dakota Access Pipeline, said he is “100 percent” confident Trump will support it. By Lorraine Chow.

What the media isn’t telling you. By Admin Tam.

What, exactly, is cholera? And why can’t we stop it? By Jason Beaubien.