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The Middle East Is Running Out of Water and Becoming Uninhabitable
August 22nd, 2021
Via CNN, a report on how the Middle East is running out of water, and parts of it are becoming uninhabitable: The ferries that once shuttled tourists to and from the little islets in Iran’s Lake Urmia sit rusty, unable to move, on what is rapidly becoming a salt plain. Just two decades ago, Urmia was […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Bengaluru To Face Acute Shortage Of Drinking Water
August 22nd, 2021
Via Zee News, a report on Bengaluru’s water scarcity problem ahead: Expressing deep concerns about the findings of The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, climate and socio-economic experts on Thursday observed that Bengaluru city will face acute drinking water shortage in the coming years. Participating in a webinar entitled Responding to Climate Change: […]
Read more »Drought Rules Spark Accusations Of Racism In California Outpost
August 21st, 2021
Via The Guardian, an article on how California’s drought rules are sparking accusations of racism in California: “I love the smell of diesel power in the afternoon. It smells like victory.” The line, a play on the quote from the Vietnam war movie Apocalypse Now, is the first uttered in a July video by Doug […]
Read more »Fight Over Florida Water Has Some Surprising Winners
August 21st, 2021
Via Christian Science Monitor, an article on how – when it comes to decisions affecting Florida’s groundwater – business interests usually trump environmental concerns, but that may be changing: Burt Eno peers down through the surface of the Rainbow River, examining the sea grasses below. Even though the water has changed over the past mile […]
Read more »U.S. West: Megadry
August 21st, 2021
Via The Economist, an article on the large number of Americans moving to a region plagued by a 22-year drought: Weather was the ultimate arbiter in the American West,” Marc Reisner wrote in “Cadillac Desert”, his book on water there, published in 1986. Reisner was musing about the great white winter of 1886, which devastated cattle […]
Read more »‘Go West, Young Man’…But Where Is The Water?
August 20th, 2021
Via AP News, an article on Greeley, Colorado’s search for water: “Go West, young man,? Horace Greeley famously urged. The problem for the northern Colorado town that bears the 19th-century newspaper editor’s name: Too many people have heeded his advice. By the tens of thousands newcomers have been streaming into Greeley — so much so […]
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