*Before the coronavirus pandemic hit, nearly 14m US households were unable to afford their water bills.* Soon it will be far more.

* On Public Service Day, don’t just thank all the workers combating Covid-19. Help them fend off punitive budget cuts.*

*US nurses at for-profit hospital chain to strike over cuts and PPE shortages.*

In rural Afghanistan, the wives of opium addicts have to earn money for their children and their addict husbands who won't let them leave the house.

According to a defector, the egg on the GRU's face after exposure of its botched attack on the Skripals reflects the essential incompetence of that organization today — and its inability to cope with the modern world of big data.

*Improve water supply in poorer nations to cut plastic use, say experts.*

There should be a substantial tax on small water bottles, of the size that are normally not reused with another batch of water.