The best Water newsletters

A collaborative of newsrooms delivers reporting on agriculture, water and climate across the Mississippi River Basin. Readers get narrative, on-the-ground stories about pollution, local communities, environmental monitoring and the people and projects tied to the watershed.

The Xylom is a nonprofit investigative outlet covering health and environmental disparities worldwide, with its newsletter sending collaborative reporting and site updates. Recent issues include a reported investigation into contaminated tap water in Kano, Nigeria, and an explainer on lightning deaths in India and the mobile alerts that can save lives.

Podcast-companion newsletter featuring interviews with founders, investors and officials on the business, technology and policy of water. Each issue gives a short answer, key figures and context from the episode conversation.

Weekly essays by ecologist Jonathan Tonkin on biodiversity, climate and water, mixing analysis of global reports with personal reflection. Readers get a scientist's perspective on conservation progress alongside thoughts on attention, family and living well while caring for the future.

Echoes Media is a slow-journalism newsletter with long-form features on environment, water, politics and society, often centred on local communities in South Asia and Europe. Readers get reported deep dives that explain issues through on-the-ground voices and historical context.

The blog of Open Book Publishers, a non-profit UK open access academic press, sharing essays on water, knowledge equity and the press's own history and practices. Readers get accessible takes on research themes alongside behind-the-scenes insight into running an open publishing house.

Local news for La Verne, California, covering city council and water district elections, school board matters, business news and community events. Readers get factual coverage of candidate forums and what each candidate says on budget, housing, infrastructure and public safety.