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Pakistan: Water Crisis Looms Over Pindi and Islamabad
June 2nd, 2022
Via Dawn, a look at Pakistan’s growing water crisis: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) and Rawalpindi cantonment boards may have to start water rationing as water level in Khanpur Dam has dropped to just 24 feet above the dead level. An Official at the reservoir pointed out that there had been a massive decrease in […]
Read more »In Worsening Drought, Southern California Water Restrictions Take Effect
June 2nd, 2022
Via The Washington Post, a report on new restrictions in Southern California: The forecast for Southern California grass is yellow and brown from here on out. On Wednesday, new restrictions on outdoor water use go into effect for more than 6 million residents in the Los Angeles area. The rules, set by the Metropolitan Water District of […]
Read more »Once Declared “Drought-Proof”, Climate Change Is Pushing El Paso To Its Limits
June 1st, 2022
Via MIT Technology Review, a report on how El Paso spent decades preparing for drought, but now climate change is forcing the city to ask just how far adaptation can go: About 20 miles outside El Paso, Texas, on a warm afternoon just before the fall harvest, Ramon Tirres Jr. turns his truck between two fields […]
Read more »Where Water Stress Will Be Highest By 2040
June 1st, 2022
Via Statista, a look at the global projected ratio of water withdrawals to water supply (water stress level) in 2040. March 22 marks the UN’s World Water Day, which “celebrates water and raises awareness of the 2 billion people currently living without access to safe water.” According to the UN: “When a territory withdraws 25 […]
Read more »Senegal Launches Contested Water Desalination Scheme
June 1st, 2022
Via Terra Daily, a report on Senegal’s controversial desalination plan: Senegal has kicked off work to build the country’s first water desalination plant, a scheme contested by critics as costly and an environmental peril. President Macky Sall on Tuesday ceremonially launched work to build a plant in Dakar’s Mamelles district aimed at easing the capital’s […]
Read more »South Asia ‘Sorely Needs Transboundary River Accord’
June 1st, 2022
Via SciDevNet, an article on South Asia’s need for a transboundary river accord: Countries around the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) basin lose over US$14.2 billion annually from lack of cooperation in sharing the waters of these rivers, with little prospect of accord in the foreseeable future, according to new analysis. “A lack of collaborative arrangements and unilateral exploitation […]
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