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When It Rains, Plants Panic. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. In an effort to breathe life into the declining coal industry, the Trump administration wants to further roll back protections for water. Plants that were treated with fracking wastewater have weakened immune systems. When it's raining, plants send alerts from leaf to leaf. Neonicotinoid pesticides have harmed bee populations, aquatic insects, birds—and now fish. A proposal to ship water from the Upper Midwest to the Southwest has gone off the rails.