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Sunday

Kelna Begum, 30, stands with her child in front of a building that's been raised to survive seasonal floods in her village of Golabari in the Sunamganj region of northern Bangladesh. Fatima Tuj Johora for NPR hide caption

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Friday

Lake Saimaa in Puumala, Finland, which is near the resort where 10 lucky participants will stay for a happiness masterclass in June. Alessandro Rampazzo/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Leading our news round up is news of a giant floating mat of grassy brown algae called Sargassum. It has grown from small patches in the Sargasso Sea and can now be seen from space. THOMAS COEX/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Thursday

Water pours out of Lake Oroville in Northern California in March. Reservoirs levels plummeted over the last three years, but now have more water than they can hold. Ken James/California Department of Water Resources hide caption

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3 reasons why California's drought isn't really over, despite all the rain

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Wednesday

New UN report paints a grim picture for the future of the world's water

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Tuesday

Boat docks sit on dry cracked earth at the Great Salt Lake's Antelope Island Marina. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption

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What we lose if the Great Salt Lake dries up

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Monday

The Supreme Court hears a case with implications for the shrinking Colorado River

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Sunday

Supreme Court cases could reshape Navajo Nation water rights

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Saturday