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In California Water May Be The Most Valuable Crop Of All
June 29th, 2021
Courtesy of The New York Times, an article on how drought in California is upending the food supply and changing farmers’ decision about their business: In America’s fruit and nut basket, water is now the most precious crop of all. It explains why, amid a historic drought parching much of the American West, a grower […]
Read more »Arsenic and the Ganges Delta: Water Crisis in Bangladesh
June 29th, 2021
Via Future Directions International, an article on Bangladesh which – in the face of a water crisis started by arsenic poisoning of groundwater and further compounded by climate change-induced salinity – must act swiftly to prevent a future surge of climate refugees: Bangladesh’s supply of potable water has been steadily eroded, as a combination of extreme […]
Read more »Day Zero On The Colorado River
June 29th, 2021
Via Sustainable Waters, an article on the increasing water stress on the Colorado River: The US Bureau of Reclamation, in its most recently published “24 Month Study,” projects that Lake Powell on the Colorado River will be three-quarters empty by New Years Day. There are three reasons that Lake Powell is drying up: (1) natural […]
Read more »Decades-long ‘Megadroughts’ in U.S. Southwest and Central Plains More Likely Due to Climate Change
June 26th, 2021
Via Circle of Blue, a report on how droughts that are extreme by today’s standards will be normal by the end of the century: If the world continues to add carbon to the atmosphere at current rates, ‘megadroughts’ lasting more than two decades will be commonplace by the end of the century in the driest […]
Read more »How The Private Sector Is Shaping The Future of Lake Chad and The Congo Basin
June 26th, 2021
Via The Conversation, commentary on the complexities of water sharing in Lake Chad: Lake Chad’s declining water level has been on the political agenda of the Sahel region since the 1960s. The water is shared by Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon though it also affects communities in the larger regional spread of the basin that includes Libya, Algeria, Sudan […]
Read more »Military Clashes in Central Asia Over Water Likely to Grow
June 26th, 2021
Via Window on Eurasia, an article on water stress in Central Asia: The military conflict between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan was in the first instance about the lack of agreement between the two countries over control of water flows. That conflict cost 55 dead and about 300 wounded and forced tens of thousands of people to […]
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