This Week in Water for February 11, 2018

Coal Ash Pits Are Leaking into Groundwater. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. As a new study finds contamination from waste produced at power plants, the EPA is expected to weaken restrictions. Cape Town is looking for alternative water supplies as "Day Zero" is postponed by a month. The BBC published a list of 11 other world cities that could face a similar crisis. Should we still be using old vocabulary like “drought” and “normal" when talking about water in the West? Mercury that's been locked up for millennia in the permafrost of the Arctic and Antarctic, is being released as the planet warms. Utilities have a new BFF when looking for leaks.