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Pakistan’s Water Crisis
June 8th, 2022
Via The Diplomat, an article on how – while Pakistan’s financial crisis is getting much media attention – the nation’s water crisis, its most pressing problem, is being ignored: The media is rife with stories of Pakistan’s financial crisis. Unwarranted and ill-founded parallels are being drawn with Sri Lanka. The fiscal situation in the country will soon […]
Read more »What Happens If Glen Canyon Dam’s Power Shuts Off?
June 7th, 2022
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, commentary on the impact of Lake Powell drying behind one of the Southwest’s largest hydropower plants: Glen Canyon Dam is operating at 60 percent of its hydroelectric capacity. Hydropower generation will likely shut down when Lake Powell’s elevation drops below 3,490 feet. Currently the lake is at 3,534 feet. Besides the […]
Read more »As California’s Big Cities Fail To Rein In Water Use, Rural Communities Are Already Tapped Out
June 6th, 2022
Via CNN, an article on how – as California’s big cities fail to rein in their water use – rural communities are already tapped out: Gary Briggs’ family hasn’t had water coming out of their private well for over a decade, after a multi-year drought and overpumping by agriculture and industry. Now, the eight-acre farm in West […]
Read more »Drought-Stricken US Warned of Looming ‘Dead Pool’
June 6th, 2022
Via BBC, an article on the risk that Lake Mead will fall to such a low level that Hoover Dam may cease to function: A once-in-a-lifetime drought in the western part of the US is turning up dead bodies – but that’s the least of people’s worries. Sitting on the Arizona-Nevada border near Las Vegas, […]
Read more »Pakistan Heading Towards Becoming Water-Scarce Country: Minister
June 6th, 2022
Via Dawn, an article on Pakistan’s water crisis: Expressing concern over the ongoing global climate crisis, Minister for Climate Change Sherry Rehman on Sunday said Pakistan was set to become one of the first five water-scarce countries if no immediate action was taken. The country is particularly afflicted and the immediacy of climate change cannot […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Taming The Waters of China’s Grand Canal
June 3rd, 2022
Via The Economist, an article on China’s Grand Canal, full for the first time in decades: When Kublai Khan tired of spending winters at his pleasure-dome in Xanadu, the Mongol overlord of China, who ruled during the 13th century, built a new capital in what is now Beijing. In order to feed the city, he […]
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