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Cameroon Fight Over Water Leaves Many Dead or Wounded
August 17th, 2021
Via VOA News, a report on water related violence in Cameroon: Cameroonian officials say hundreds of people have fled its northern border with Chad after an ongoing conflict over water between cattle ranchers and fishermen killed 18 people and wounded 70. The wounded have been rushed to hospitals in Kousseri, a Cameroon border town and […]
Read more »Small Towns Grow Desperate for Water in California
August 15th, 2021
Courtesy of New York Times, a report on how California’s drought is revealing that – perhaps even more than rainfall – it is money and infrastructure that dictate who has sufficient water during the state’s increasingly frequent dry spells: As a measure of both the nation’s creaking infrastructure and the severity of the drought gripping […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Semiconductors and Water Scarcity in China
August 15th, 2021
Via The Diplomat, a look the nexus between semiconductors and water scarcity in China: Everyone knows it’s a bad idea to spill water on a cell phone, but did you know that it takes more than 3,000 gallons of water to produce one? Water is needed for mining the metal, making the glue and plastic for assembly […]
Read more »The Colorado River Basin’s Daunting New Math
August 15th, 2021
Via Circle of Blue, an article examining how the Colorado River basin’s big reservoirs have fallen to uncharted territory, with a dire forecast in the future: Lakes Mead and Powell, icons of 20th century water engineering in the American West, are in bad shape. The story of their decline is written into the edges of the […]
Read more »Household Wells Are Failing In Northern California
August 13th, 2021
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a look at the impact of drought in Northern California where many household wells are failing: Though it was a sudden death, happening overnight during a record-smashing June heat wave, the demise of Maralee and Noal Childs’s household water well was not entirely unexpected. The Childses live in Glenn County, […]
Read more »Argentina’s Paraná River Drops to 77-Year Low
August 13th, 2021
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a report on Argentina’s Paraná River: The Paraná River stretches through the heart of central South America, arising in Brazil and extending over 3,000 miles through Paraguay and Argentina. The continent’s second-longest river behind the Amazon, the Paraná is a workhorse, supporting rainforest diversity, Indigenous ancestral homes, and Argentina’s economy: over […]
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