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California: Water Wars On The Boil
July 12th, 2008
Courtesy of PBS’s NewsHour, a detailed report on the fact that – for the first time since the early 1990s – California is facing a summer of potential water shortages. The rains tapered off this spring, producing the second dry year in a row and causing Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to declare a statewide drought. As […]
Read more »Great Lakes Water Compact – Update
July 12th, 2008
Via Water Wired, news that the Great Lakes Compact is one step closer to reality. As the article notes, all eight US Great Lakes Basin states have approved the measure; Congress now has to give its blessing. The Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec have signed on. Although Quebec does not border any of the […]
Read more »Water War Brewing? Canada, U.S., NAFTA, and Water Exports
July 12th, 2008
Niagara This Week offered an interesting article touching on many issues, including whether or not NAFTA protects water exports from Canada. As the report notes: “… millions of U.S. residents living in places such as California, Nevada, and Arizona could soon be looking this way with a hungry glint in their eye. And it won’t […]
Read more »Nevada and Utah Argue Over Water
July 5th, 2008
Courtesy of The Salt Lake City Tribune, a detailed look at the increasing tension between Utah and Nevada – the two driest states in America - over ever-shrinking water resources. As the article notes: “…On moonless nights here in the Utah-Nevada borderlands of Snake Valley, the naked eye can see five planets, countless stars and […]
Read more »The Great Drain on the Mediterranean
July 4th, 2008
In an excellent review of a growing regional problem, The Christian Science Monitor details how, across the Mediter-ranean, water is being pumped out of the earth at an unsustainable pace. “…In Italy’s Milan region, groundwater levels have fallen by more than 80 feet over the past 80 years. So much water has been pumped from […]
Read more »Lake Victoria Woes
July 4th, 2008
Via The San Francisco Chronicle, further news of the severe problems besetting Africa’s Lake Victoria and the potential political ramifications that may arise. As the article notes, receding waters have raised tensions between the lake’s three neighboring countries: “…Lake Victoria, the world’s largest tropical lake at 26,560 square miles and the second-largest freshwater lake in […]
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