The Week in Water brings you blue living news and ideas from around the web. Mother Jones takes a look at the growing sinkhole in Assumption Parish, Louisiana. It's been quite active this week, with …
Louisiana Sinkhole Update 17 Oct 2012
The sinkhole in Assumption Parish is quite a bit larger. Natural gas has entered a nearby aquifer from the Texas Brine cavern. Cleanup continues, but it's dangerous because of the instability of the …
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Louisiana Sinkhole Update 27 Sep 2012
The sinkhole in Assumption Parish, Louisiana has opened up quite a bit more and the drilling has discovered the bottom of the cavern too soon. Early morning 20 September, about twenty-five feet of …
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Louisiana Sinkhole Update 14 Sep 2012
The latest video flyover of the sinkhole in Assumption Parish shows no change in the size of the sinkhole. Some new seismic activity has been detected. Hurricane Isaac doesn't seem to have changed …
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Louisiana Sinkhole Update 4 Sep 2012
The sinkhole in Assumption Parish, Louisiana remains the same size, but new bubbling spots have been found. Before the sinkhole opened up at the beginning of August, residents reported strange …
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Hurricane Isaac Update
Hurricane Isaac quickly became a tropical storm once it hit land. That didn't stop it from causing significant damage. About one million people live outside the levee system that protects Louisiana …