This Week in Water for June 6, 2021

Many of the World’s Lakes Are in Trouble. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: Drought in the West leads one governor to ask residents to pray for rain. The Biden administration suspends some drilling leases in Alaska but supports a fossil fuel project in a separate sensitive Arctic landscape. In an alarming trend, freshwater lakes are losing oxygen at a rate three to nine times faster than the oceans. In the latest “land back” effort by indigenous people, a tribe in Maine has reclaimed an island taken nearly 200 years ago. Elephants use their trunks as a suitcase.