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Kyrgyz Farmers Battered By Drought
August 31st, 2021
Via Eurasia, a report on Kyrgyz farmers suffering from the nation’s drought: It was 35 degrees Celsius outside. A hazy mirage shimmered over the hot summer soil in Petrovka, a village in the northern Kyrgyzstan region of Chui. A sharp bout of torrential rain had soaked the fields a day before a recent Eurasianet visit, but […]
Read more »Iraq: Big Loser of Middle East Water Wars
August 31st, 2021
Via The Asia Times, an article on how the region’s traditional ‘Fertile Crescent’ is running dry due to upstream damming by water hegemons Turkey and Iran: With two of the world’s most famous rivers flowing through it, Iraq was known for centuries as the Middle East’s “Fertile Crescent,” its rich civilizations watered by the Tigris […]
Read more »40 Million People Rely On The Colorado River Which Is Drying Up Fast
August 29th, 2021
Courtesy of The New York Times, an article on the Colorado River: On a 110-degree day several years ago, surrounded by piles of sand and rock in the desert outside of Las Vegas, I stepped into a yellow cage large enough to fit three standing adults, and was lowered 600 feet through a black hole […]
Read more »Iranian President Inspects Khuzestan Water Shortage
August 28th, 2021
Via The Iran Project, an article on Iranian President Raisi visit to Hoor al-Azim Lagoon in order to inspect Khuzestan’s water shortage crisis: President Raisi traveled to the southern province on Friday morning just a day after first cabinet meeting of his administration in capital Tehran. President Raisi, who is visiting Khuzestan in an unannounced program, […]
Read more »Droughts Push More People to Migrate Than Floods
August 28th, 2021
Via Circle of Blue, an article about a recent World Bank report that people are five times as likely to move following drought conditions as they are after floods or periods of excess water: After a year of extreme weather, people in the drylands of northern California and the hurricane-drenched bayous of southern Louisiana are […]
Read more »Water Crisis Puts 12M At Risk In Syria and Iraq
August 23rd, 2021
Via Al Monitor, an article on how higher temperatures, drought and record low rainfall levels are depriving millions of people of drinking and agricultural water: A water crisis in Syria and Iraq has put more than 12 million people at risk of losing access to food, water and electricity, a group of aid organizations said […]
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