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Utah’s Big Water Grab
August 15th, 2018
Via Outside Magazine, an interesting look at how the retiree oasis of St. George, Utah will explode with growth, turning red rock to bluegrass and slaking its thirst with a new billion-dollar pipeline from the Colorado River: Let us now praise southern Utah! I moved here the high-water spring of 1993, everything I owned in the […]
Read more »Kurdistan and Iraq Working Together To Solve The Region’s Water Crisis
August 15th, 2018
Via SOFREP, an article on efforts by Kurdistan and Iraq to work together to address the region’s water crisis: The water crisis in the country has pushed the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Iraqi central government to unite on the issue. Both entities are cooperating in an effort to find a scientific solution to the […]
Read more »Afghanistan Hit By Worst Drought In Decades
August 14th, 2018
Via Terra Daily, a report on Afghanistan’s severe drought: After his wheat crop failed and wells dried up, Ghulam Abbas sold his animals and joined thousands of other farmers migrating to cities as Afghanistan’s worst drought in living memory ravages the war-torn country. A huge shortfall in snow and rain across much of the country […]
Read more »Iran: The Regime Will Find a Way to Undermine Water Crisis Solutions
August 8th, 2018
Via Future Directions International, commentary on Iran’s water crisis: Iran’s water crisis has not occurred in a vacuum. To understand the crisis and how to fix it, a study that goes beyond the economics or the science of the water crisis is needed. A focus on institutions and political processes inside Iran is what problem […]
Read more »Water Tension Between Iran and Afghanistan
August 4th, 2018
Via Times of Central Asia, commentary on Tehran’s influence behind the recent clashes in Afghanistan’s Farah province, where some feel that Iran may be working the Taliban to its advantage to secure control of local resources, particularly water: Iran’s alleged support of the Taliban in bordering Afghan regions is likely to be caused by Tehran’s intention to […]
Read more »Iran’s Lake Urmia
August 4th, 2018
Via The Iran Project, a report on potential ways to restore Iran’s Lake Urmia: Talking about Lake Urmia, a body of water shared between East and West Azarbaijan provinces in northwestern Iran, chief of Iran’s Department of Environment (DOE) put emphasis on the fact that no water transfer scheme is underway for restoration of the […]
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