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Water Resources in Pakistan: Scarce, Polluted and Poorly Governed
February 1st, 2019
Via Future Directions International, an article on Pakistan’s water challenges: Pakistan continues to experience acute water scarcity, largely driven by drought and intensive agriculture. Water is severely polluted by human, agricultural and industrial waste. There are few effective channels to mitigate the water crisis. Current laws do not reflect the poor state of Pakistani water […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Despite National Improvements, Water Quality Deteriorates in North-East China
January 30th, 2019
Via Future Directions International, a report on China’s other water related issue – pollution: Water pollution is a major environmental issue in China and is a leading cause of “mass incidents”, as public protests are called in China. In 2014, more than half of the water tested from 4,778 sources was unfit for human consumption. […]
Read more »Drought + Conflict = Climate Refugees
January 28th, 2019
Via Eco Business, an article on statistical examination of whether – in a context of poor governance and a medium level of democracy – severe climate conditions can create conflict over scarce resources: Austrian researchers have made it simpler to identify climate refugees, claiming to have established a direct causal link between climate change, conflict and the […]
Read more »Going, Going, Gone: The Global Water Crisis
January 28th, 2019
Courtesy of Quartz, a report on the world’s water crisis: t the edge of the Sea of Cortez lies what was once the mouth of the 1,450-mile-long Colorado River, a marsh land that, half a century ago, was filled with birds and wildlife and supported hundreds of small farms and fisheries. But drought, dams, and […]
Read more »On the Water-Starved Colorado River, Drought Is the New Normal
January 26th, 2019
Via Yale’s e360, an interesting article on the impact that a 19-year drought and climate change in the U.S. southwest is having upon making the region, water managers and users along the Colorado River: In the basement of the University of Arizona’s Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, the fragrant smell of pine hangs in the air as […]
Read more »A Global Groundwater ‘Time Bomb’
January 23rd, 2019
Via Motherboard, a report on how climate change could disrupt nearly half of the world’s groundwater supply within 100 years: Many harsh realities of climate change are kicking in around the world, including extreme weather and sea level rise. But scientists now warn that there’s an overlooked “time bomb” on the horizon as temperatures warm—the global groundwater […]
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