Brett writes about agriculture, energy, and the politics and economics of water in the United States for Circle of Blue, and he occasionally reports on Australia, India, and the Middle East. Brett also writes the Federal Water Tap, Circle of Blue’s weekly digest of U.S. government water news. He has an MA in Central Asian studies from the University of Washington and a BA in English from the University of Richmond. In 2014, the Society of Environmental Journalists awarded Brett 3rd place in the SEJ annual awards competition for beat reporting in a small market (Western water issues). Brett has received fellowships from SEJ (2013) and the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources (2011). Prior to Circle of Blue, Brett worked on a NASA-affiliated water data research project and as a member of a State Department project on climate change and water management in Central Asia. Brett lives in Seattle, where he hikes the mountains and bakes pies.
Ten minutes before Helene came ashore the night of September 26 in the Big Bend area of Florida as a monstrous Category 4 hurricane, the National Hurricane Centre published an advisory bu...
Too much. Too little. Too polluted.
After a year of extreme weather, people in the drylands of northern California and the hurricane-drenched bayous of southern Louisiana are brooding on the same question: should we leave?
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Securing adequate supplies of clean water in a changing climate is one of the world’s most urgent social, political, economic, and environmental challenges. World Water Day, an annual UN-...
Billions of dollars worth of mining and energy projects around the world have been cancelled or mothballed due to a chronic lack of water.
