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The Parched Tiger: Can Darjeeling’s Thirst Be Quenched?
December 9th, 2021
Via India Water Portal, a look at the reasons behind a growing water crisis in Darjeeling and what can be done to deal with the situation: India’s urban population is expected to grow around 800 million by 2050, which is predicted to create major challenges for urban water management. This is increasingly becoming obvious in hill […]
Read more »Iran’s “Water Bankruptcy”
December 6th, 2021
Via the US Institute of Peace, a detailed commentary on Iran’s water scarcity crisis: In mid-July 2021, a water shortage sparked protests in the southwest province of Khuzestan that then spread to other provinces over the next weeks. How has water escalated as a national issue? What are the long-term political implications? Water is intrinsically […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: What Chinese Dams in Laos Tell Us About the Belt and Road Initiative
December 6th, 2021
Via The Diplomat, a look at what Chinese dams in Laos tell us about Chinese ambitions and objectives: With nearly $900 billion in investment across nearly 140 countries, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has sparked significant debate. Much of this debate has focused on the professed grand strategic aims of the project, leading to […]
Read more »Saving a Water-Stressed Middle East
December 6th, 2021
Via The Cairo Review, a look at how inefficient water management exacerbates water insecurity in the MENA region: The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) will be the most severely affected by climate change. A report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change forecasts that this region will inevitably experience shorter and warmer winters, hotter and drier […]
Read more »How a Federal Drought Relief Program Left Southern Oregon Parched
December 3rd, 2021
Via The Counter, a report on how a Federal drought relief program left Southern Oregon =parched—and contributed to the ongoing groundwater crisis in the West: This April, Micah Goettl, an emergency coordinator for the Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS), began to hear reports of residential wells failing in Klamath County. At first, this wasn’t […]
Read more »Utah’s Water Dilemma
December 3rd, 2021
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a look at Utah’s water dilemma: Sitting inside a shepherd’s trailer hitched to his white pickup truck, Robert Child recounts a lifetime spent running sheep in the pastures of northern Utah. Wind gently rocks the compact trailer as Child, who is 75, describes the grazing rotations for his 2,000-head flock. […]
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