Keyword topic
7 articles from 5 news outlets, Sep 27 to Oct 26
Share of stories per day
The share of each source's stories that mention water, averaged over sources with at least 3 stories that day.
Coverage by source over time
One ridge per source that mentioned water, from the most left-leaning on top: how high it rises each day is the share of that source's stories that mention it.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Who picked it up when
PBS NewsHour mentioned it first (Oct 12, 2026, 6:40 PM EDT). Right-leaning outlets followed 4 days later. No least biased outlet mentioned it.
One row per source that mentioned water, from the most left-leaning on top: a dot for each article, on a bar for each stretch of its coverage (a pause of more than 24 hours starts a new one). Hover or tap a dot for the headline, click it to read the article.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Coverage by source
The share of each source's stories that mention water, Sep 27 to Oct 26, from left to right. Sort the table to reorder the bars.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
| The Atlantic | 0.4% | 1 | 274 |
| PBS NewsHour | 0.2% | 1 | 559 |
| The Wall Street Journal | 2.4% | 3 | 125 |
| Fox News | <0.1% | 1 | 2406 |
| Breitbart | 0.1% | 1 | 1819 |
Coverage by lean
The share of stories that mention water, Sep 27 to Oct 26, averaged over the outlets of each political lean with at least 3 stories. The groups differ in size, so a single outlet weighs more in the smaller ones.
- Left-leaning2 of 15 sources
- <0.1%
- Least biased0 of 8 sources
- 0.0%
- Right-leaning3 of 15 sources
- 0.2%
Source leans based on ratings by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Lean index +3.0: covered more by right-leaning outlets
Each outlet at its MBFC bias score, from −10 (far left) to +10 (far right), as high as the share of its stories that mention water. The lean index is the average score of the outlets covering it, weighted by that share.
lean indexour sources' average (+0.4)leftcenterright
Bias scores by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Lean index per day
Related keywords
Keywords that appear in the same articles as water, Sep 27 to Oct 26: the share of its articles that also mention them, with the number of shared articles.
No keyword appears in more than one of its articles.
Example articles
The article that features water most, per source.
- The AtlanticWhen Rivers Run Low in the American West
- PBS NewsHourWater access becomes a top election concern for Arizona voters
- The Wall Street JournalOpinion | California in the Water Wars
- Fox NewsDR MARC SIEGEL: Iowa's cancer rate is rising. One answer may be found in the water
- BreitbartTexas AG Ken Paxton Sends Compliance Letters to 156 Data Centers over Water Usage Reporting
All articles
Every article that mentions water, Sep 27 to Oct 26. Relevance says how central it is to the article; ● marks a mention in the title. Combine with another keyword, text or sources.
| Article | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Wall Street Journal | Opinion | California in the Water WarsThe Wall Street Journal | 0.70● | |
| The Atlantic | When Rivers Run Low in the American WestThe Atlantic | 0.70 | |
| The Wall Street Journal | A Disappearing Rio Grande Is Reshaping Life Along the RiverThe Wall Street Journal | 0.50 | |
| The Wall Street Journal | Opinion | What Can Be Done About the Colorado River?The Wall Street Journal | 0.50 | |
| Fox News | DR MARC SIEGEL: Iowa's cancer rate is rising. One answer may be found in the waterFox News | 0.50● | |
| Breitbart | Texas AG Ken Paxton Sends Compliance Letters to 156 Data Centers over Water Usage ReportingBreitbart | 0.60● | |
| PBS NewsHour | Water access becomes a top election concern for Arizona votersPBS NewsHour | 0.90● |