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As a Hot, Dry Summer Begins in California, More Water Wells Are Failing
June 17th, 2021
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, an article on California’s drought: On Memorial Day, while many Californians were celebrating the unofficial start to summer, the owners of the home off of County Road 200 were contemplating a loss. That day, the homeowners in northern Glenn County submitted an anonymous report to a state database indicating that their drinking […]
Read more »UN: Drought Is ‘The Next Pandemic’
June 17th, 2021
Via The Guardian, a report that the UN has declared drought as the next global crisis: Drought is a hidden global crisis that risks becoming “the next pandemic” if countries do not take urgent action on water and land management and tackling the climate emergency, the UN has said. At least 1.5 billion people have been directly […]
Read more »Iran: Facing Water ‘Bankruptcy’
June 16th, 2021
Via Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, a report on Iran’s depleted aquifers: Iran is facing a state of water bankruptcy that threatens its socioeconomic development and natural environments. Using an exceptionally rich measured groundwater dataset, we illustrate the extent and severity of Iran’s groundwater depletion and salinization problems during the 2002 to 2015 period, […]
Read more »Drought Exacerbating Central Asian Regional Conflicts
June 16th, 2021
Via Window on Eurasia, commentary on how drought is exacerbating Central Asian conflicts: The drought in Central Asia means that the flow of the Amudarya River is currently 24.5 percent lower than in 2019 and 16.4 percent lower than it was last year when the region began suffering a drought. There is thus less water […]
Read more »2B People To Face Water Shortages As Ice On The World’s Highest Mountains Melts
June 15th, 2021
As reported by UNDP, two billion people will face water shortages as ice on the Tibetan plateau melts: Asia’s Hindu Kush-Himalayan mountain ranges could lose up to two thirds of its ice by 2100, causing water and food shortages for over two billion people in the downstream river basins of South and East Asia, according […]
Read more »Sudan: “Open To Conditional Interim Deal On Ethiopia Dam”
June 15th, 2021
Via Reuters, a report that Sudan says it is open to conditional interim deal on Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance dam: Sudan is open to a partial interim agreement on Ethiopia’s multi-billion-dollar dam on the Blue Nile, with specific conditions, Irrigation Minister Yasir Abbas said on Monday. While Ethiopia is pinning its hopes of economic development and power […]
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