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Pakistan’s Water Bearers Quench Thirst In Ramadan, But Fear For Their Trade
May 14th, 2021
Via Reuters, a report on Pakistan’s water bearers: Mohammad Ramzan pumps water into a large goat skin bag before carrying it down an alley and up several flights of stairs to deliver to a resident in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city. For more than four decades Ramzan has been a “mashki”, or water bearer, an age-old […]
Read more »Water and Land Disputes Turn Violent Along Ambiguous Kyrgyz-Tajik Border
May 14th, 2021
Via Circle of Blue, a report on water disputes along the ambiguous Kyrgyz-Tajik border: The border shared by Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan is a strip of hard-edged hills and scoured ridges. Apricot orchards occupy scarce flatlands and oxen graze on thinning fields of green. Nearly half of the 600-mile border remains unofficial and non-delineated, a Soviet-era […]
Read more »Water Scarcity In Middle East: A Strategic and Political Lever For National Security
May 8th, 2021
Via Eurasia Review, a report on the Middle East where water supply systems are increasingly becoming both political lever and objectives of strategic action as states perceive access to water as an issue of national security: The Middle East region is currently facing simultaneous security, climate change and water scarcity crises. Water scarcity is a pressing […]
Read more »Widespread Drought in Mexico
May 6th, 2021
Via NASA Earth Observatory, an article on how nearly 85 percent of Mexico is experiencing drought, and water sources are dwindling: Mexico is experiencing one of its most widespread and intense droughts in decades. Nearly 85 percent of the country is facing drought conditions as of April 15, 2021. Large reservoirs across the country are standing at […]
Read more »Drought-Hit Jordan ‘Critical’ As Water Sources Dry Up
May 6th, 2021
Via Terra Daily, a report on Jordan’s water crisis: Ahmad Daoud surveyed his shrivelled tomato plants near the Dead Sea in Jordan, where severe drought in what is already one of the world’s most water-deficient countries is hitting hard. “Look at how the land thirsts,” he said, walking on cracked earth stained with white salt […]
Read more »Fish or farmers? Drought Declaration Would Trigger New War over California Water
May 6th, 2021
Via The Sacramento Bee, an article on how Governor Newsom’s drought declaration would trigger a new war over California water: When a bipartisan group of state legislators held a press conference last week to demand that Gov. Gavin Newsom declare a statewide drought emergency, they assembled at a withered farm field east of Fresno, complete with piles […]
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