A public art initiative seeks to raise awareness of the polluted state of India’s Yamuna River by linking it with Germany’s far cleaner Elbe, where a similar exhibition has been organized. [Associated Press]

Citing what he said were inadequate safeguards, Gov. Jack Markell of Delaware said he would oppose a regional agency plan to allow horizontal hydraulic fracturing in the Delaware River watershed. [DelawareOnline]

The Breast Cancer Fund tests canned foods used to make popularThanksgiving dishes for the presence of bisphenol A, an estrogenic chemical that some lab studies have linked to breast cancer. It finds contamination, but that does not necessarily mean that consumers are ingesting the chemical, a report indicates. [Grist]

Half of all households in Britain face the threat of droughtrestrictions in 2012 if rainfall does not return to normal this winter after some of the driest weather on record over the last year, water utility officials warn. [The Guardian]

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